Achieving supply chain resilience within the offsite construction sector: A review of success factors

The modern construction supply chains (SCs) are extended over hundreds and thousands of miles, making them overexposed to various risks with distinct levels of probabilities and magnitudes. The modern trend of offsite construction has been highlighted as the panacea for some of the illnesses currently faced by industry, including the environmental emergency, fragmentation of the industry, high uncertainty within construction markets, and the continuous need for uplifting performance of the built assets. Focusing on the offsite construction industry (OC), this paper aims to review the available literature in order to investigate how supply chain resilience (SCR) is an essential concept to adopt by the entities operating within the sector, highlighting the different factors affecting this adoption. The results revealed 96 critical factors that affect the degree of adoption and successful application of SCR for entities operating within the OC sector. On the one hand, these factors are categorised under six constructs of SCR failure: Environmental, Financial, Procedural, Project Organizational factors, Supplier/customer and Technological. On the other hand, 12 constructs of SCR success factors: Adaptability, Anticipation, Capacity, Collaboration, Dispersion, Efficiency, Financial, Flexibility, Market position, Recovery, Security, Visibility. This paper is beneficial in introducing prior knowledge on SCs to the OC sector by identifying and promoting success and failure factors in a collective manner. This knowledge provides guidance to industry practitioners on how to assess the levels of their criticality, seek improvements, and identify the most suitable ways to properly integrate them into supply chain processes in the OC industry.