Assess resilience
Develop a modular resilience assessment framework with regulatory requirements expressed through operational, financial and compliance indicators.
Research approach
ReSolVe develops tools to help organisations choose viable supply-chain strategies as regulation, climate and markets change. The research connects disruption analysis with decisions about sourcing, inventory and network design, and tests these methods in Heineken’s packaging and brewing supply chains.
Research gap
From seeing disruption
to deciding what comes next.
Supply chains have greater visibility than ever. Yet regulatory requirements, cascading risks and changing conditions are often assessed separately.
ReSolVe connects them in one planning framework, so organisations can compare responses across continuity, cost and compliance.
Explore the concept model
See the disruption
Understand exposure across the network.
Compare responses
Connect risk, regulation and trade-offs.
Plan for resilience
Inform sourcing, inventory and network design.
Concept model
Changing conditions inform the resilience engine. It compares possible responses to support sourcing, inventory and network decisions. Select a condition to explore an example.
External conditions
Resilience engine
01
Optimisation
Continuity · cost · compliance
02
Adaptation
Scenarios that evolve over time
03
Benchmarking
Strategies on shared measures
Planning strategies
Strategy options
- Sourcing
- Inventory & buffers
- Network design
Scenario updates and model feedback
Regulatory integration
A new carbon-border requirement changes the exposure of materials and suppliers. The engine brings that constraint into the comparison of sourcing and network options.
Illustrative planning pathways. This explains the research model; it is not a live simulation.
Objectives
Compare responses
Develop and validate a resilience engine integrating cascading risk propagation, dynamic scenarios and multi-objective optimisation.
Test in industry
Validate the framework in two Heineken pilots, using procurement and operations data from packaging and brewing supply chains.
Support adoption
Define adoption pathways and scalable reuse models, supported by open-access tools, regulatory templates and stakeholder engagement.
Research questions
Can resilience be formalised as a computable design variable by integrating regulatory constraints and multidimensional KPIs into supply-chain planning models?
To what extent can adaptive planning engines simulate cascading and evolving disruptions across policy, climate and trade, and how do these simulations affect sourcing-strategy robustness?
Which institutional and operational factors affect the adoption and usability of resilience planning tools, and how can toolkits support scalable, policy-aligned deployment across sectors?
From research to practice
Develop the methods, test them in industry,
and make them usable across supply chains.
Modelling
Connect regulatory requirements and disruption risks with the decisions organisations need to make.
Validation
Test the methods in Heineken’s packaging and brewing supply chains, using real procurement and operational data.
Adoption
Translate the research into accessible tools, guidance and training for businesses of different sizes.
Research activities
WP1: Resilience assessment framework
A modular methodology to quantify resilience trade-offs across operational, financial and regulatory dimensions. TU Delft and KPMG co-develop the framework; KPMG leads the work package.
1.1 Assessment framework and KPIs
Combine multi-criteria decision analysis and risk-propagation modelling. Define indicators and validate the methodology through practitioner consultation.
1.2 Regulatory integration
Classify CBAM, CRMA and CSDDD requirements by financial, operational and risk relevance. Integrate compliance pathways into resilience assessment.
WP2: Resilience engine
Computational tools to simulate cascading disruptions, optimise interventions and compare strategies under evolving policy, climate and trade conditions.
2.1 Resilience optimisation model
Model disruption detection, propagation and intervention through multi-objective optimisation. Evaluate performance in virtual supply-chain testbeds.
2.2 Adaptive resilience engine
Represent phased regulation, emissions targets and trade changes as time-evolving scenarios. Compare adaptive and static strategies.
2.3 Strategy benchmarking
Compare supplier diversification, network redesign and buffers using shared operational, financial and regulatory KPIs, with ESG validation.
WP3: Empirical pilots
Two Heineken pilots evaluate the tools using procurement and operational data, supported by a common validation framework and virtual stress tests.
3.1 Validation framework
Establish consistent experimental methods, resilience indicators and evaluation logic for real-world and virtual pilots.
3.2 Packaging supply chains
Assess CBAM exposure, circularity requirements and aluminium supply volatility. Evaluate supplier-network redesign, adaptive sourcing and material substitution.
3.3 Brewery operations
Assess water stress, barley and hops supply, and energy volatility. Evaluate water-efficient processes, renewable energy integration and climate-resilient sourcing.
WP4: Scaling strategy and industry uptake
Translate pilot results into adoption strategies, regulatory templates and tool formats suitable for corporate users and SMEs.
4.1 Impact assessment
Evaluate financial returns, emissions and regulatory alignment. Develop a KPI dashboard for procurement and compliance reporting.
4.2 Adoption and upscaling
Assess transferability across sectors and develop regulatory templates, implementation roadmaps and Excel-based tool variants for SMEs.
4.3 Long-term uptake
Define deployment models, institutional responsibilities and post-project governance for tool maintenance and reuse.
WP5: Communication, dissemination and engagement
Provide open-access knowledge transfer, stakeholder co-creation and monitoring of tool adoption across industry and public-sector users.
5.1 Open Knowledge Hub
TU Delft will host tools, training materials, data, documentation and pilot case studies in reusable formats.
5.2 Stakeholder engagement
Organise workshops, expert forums and policy roundtables for practitioners, SMEs, compliance teams and public-sector users.
5.3 Uptake assessment
Track adoption, usability and barriers to implementation using platform analytics, stakeholder feedback and partner reporting.