Few vulnerabilities in Australian supply chains

  • Preliminaries: Cover, Copyright and publication detail, Foreword, Terms of reference, Acknowledgments and Abbreviations
  • Executive summary
  • Findings
  • 1 About this study
    • 1.1 Background to the study
    • 1.2 What was the Commission asked to do?
    • 1.3 How this study relates to other reviews and government initiatives
  • 2 Supply chains and risks
    • 2.1 Supply chains are complex, and becoming more so
    • 2.2 Firm level supply chain risks and vulnerabilities
    • 2.3 From firm level risk to market level risk
  • 3 A framework to identify vulnerable supply chains
    • 3.1 The links between wellbeing and supply chains
    • 3.2 The approach to identifying goods and services that are vulnerable, essential and critical
  • 4 Applying the framework to Australian imports
    • 4.1 How important are imports to economic activity?
    • 4.2 How vulnerable are Australian imports to disruption?
    • 4.3 How reliant is the production of essential goods and services on vulnerable imports?
    • 4.4 Direct and indirect contribution of vulnerable imports to the consumption of essential goods and services
    • 4.5 Possible extensions to this work
  • 5 Applying the framework to Australian exports
    • 5.1 Australia’s exports — where and what
    • 5.2 Demand side vulnerability
    • 5.3 Vulnerable imports used to produce exports
  • 6 Supply chain risk management
    • 6.1 A framework for managing risks
    • 6.2 Understanding risk
    • 6.3 Risk management strategies
  • 7 The role of government in risk management
    • 7.1 Responsibility for managing supply chain risks
    • 7.2 Role of government in managing supply chain risks
    • 7.3 A framework for determining whether government intervention is justified
  • A Consultation
  • B Case studies in vulnerability
  • C Technical application of the analytical framework to imports
  • D Price elasticities of demand for imports
  • E Downstream vulnerability of exports
  • F Maritime shipping and ports capacity
  • References
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