“…In their comprehensive literature review 1 , Seebacher and Winkler (2013) remark that research on supply chain flexibility deals with "the issue of rapidly reconfiguring and aligning the supply chain and its entities according to changing requirements in a cost efficient way" (p. 3416), and that this research "is also characterised by a vast variety of different supply chain flexibility dimensions and types" (p. 3417). Two typical characterizations for supply chain flexibility can be found in Swafford, Ghosh, and Murthy (2006) who considered the components procurement/sourcing 1 Other reviews of the supply chain flexibility literature can be found in Fayezi, Zutshi, and O'Loughlin (2016), More and Babu (2009), Singh and Acharya (2013), Stevenson and Spring (2007), and Tiwari, Tiwari, and Samuel (2015).…”