Supply chain agility drivers and enablers

In today's extremely changing economic landscape, agility, defined as the ability to respond rapidly and effectively to internal and external variations, become a vital competence for supply chains. A first step to understand supply chain agility is to study the environment in which the supply chain evolves and the internal and external drivers that force supply chain to acquire agile capabilities. Secondly, agility manifests itself through a number of agility enablers allowing the supply chain to respond to sudden disturbances. In this paper, we present a framework for agility drivers and agility enablers, based on expert opinions and findings from literature.