Resilience demand management

Rockstrom J (2003) Resilience building and water demand management for drought mitigation. Phys Chem Earth 28 869-877... 

Excess resources can contribute to the Total Quality Management continuous improvement process Spare capacity provides resilience to unusual demands. Increasing resources does not necessttnly meitn more people, but it may be achieved by better design of jobs, equipment, or procedui.. s. 

As a result, many companies often want to throw in the towel. They want to forget demand and only focus on the redesign of supply processes to become more reliable, resilient, and agile. The list of possible projects is long and often includes lean manufacturing, cycletime reduction, order management, or the redefinition of distribution center flows. 

Bruneau et al. (2003) define resilience as characterized by four main properties robustness, rapidity, redundancy, and resourcefulness (4 R s), to be managed and computed as proxies of resilience. Robustness is related to the strength, or the ability of elements, systems, and other units of analysis to withstand a given level of stress or demand without suffering degradation or loss of function. Rapidity is the capacity to meet priorities and achieve goals in a timely manner in order to contain losses and avoid future disruption. Redundancy refers to the availability of substitutable elements or systems in the aftermath of a disruption, and resourcefulness is the capacity to mobilize material and human resources. Within this approach, different methods have been proposed, whose final scope is to compute resilience as the ability to cope with degradation in system performance Q(t), over time. Numerically, resilience R is often computed as the area underneath function Q(t), divided by the time to restore the pre-event performance (Fig. 1) ... 

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