The concept of agile supply chains is attracting increasing research attention,
and has been picked up with enthusiasm by commercial organisations, as a
conference at Cranfield recently demonstrated (see below). Agile supply chains
have a number of distinguishing characteristics. They not only need to be
network-based, but they also need to be market-sensitive, with highly integrated
virtual and critical processes. Agile supply chains need to synchronise both
supply and demand, if they are to respond in ever shorter time-frames to both
volume and variety changes. The agile supply chain needs to be able to adjust
output quickly to match market demand and switch rapidly from one variant to
another
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