Supply Chain Resilience Is Not Visibility. It Is the Ability to Execute Alternatives

Executive thesis. Visibility tells the enterprise that disruption exists; resilience determines whether it can do something different. The distinction is the availability of executable alternatives and the decision rights to use them.
Awareness is only the first step
A supply chain can have excellent visibility into a disruption and still be unable to respond. Knowing that a supplier is offline, a lane is blocked, or a facility has lost capacity matters, but resilience depends on whether the org