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Supply Chain Agility Index

Picture a shipper facing sudden supply disruptions while customer demands shift rapidly.

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Last updated: 11 June 2026Published: 19 June 2025

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Picture a shipper facing sudden supply disruptions while customer demands shift rapidly. The Supply Chain Agility Index quantifies how quickly a supply chain can respond to such volatility, integrating metrics such as lead time variability, order-to-delivery cycle time, and setup times into a single scorecard. A higher index signals greater flexibility to absorb market shocks, adapt to new customer specifications, or bypass bottlenecks. Calculation methods are customized by industry and organizational priorities.

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