In today's business, environment natural and manmade disasters like recent event (Covid 19) have increased the attention of practitioners and researchers to Supply chain vulnerability. Purpose of this paper is to investigate and prioritize the factors that are responsible for supply chain vulnerability. Extant literature review and interviews with the experts helped to extract 26 supply chain vulnerability factors. Further, the relative criticality of vulnerability factors is assessed by analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Critical part supplier; location of supplier; long supply chain lead times; Fixing process owners and mis-aligned incentives in supply chain are identified as the most critical factors among twenty-six vulnerability factors. Research concludes that not only long and complex supply chain but supply chain practices adopted by firms also increase supply chain vulnerability. Relative assessment of vulnerability factors enables professionals to take appropriate mitigation strategies to make the supply chains more robust. This research adds in building a model for vulnerability factors that are internal to supply chain & controllable.

在当今的商业中，环境自然灾害和人为灾害（例如最近的事件（Covid 19））增加了从业者和研究人员对供应链脆弱性的关注。本文的目的是调查导致供应链脆弱性的因素并确定优先顺序。现有文献综述和专家访谈帮助提取了 26 个供应链脆弱性因素。此外，脆弱性因素的相对严重性通过层次分析法（AHP）进行评估。关键零部件供应商；供应商所在地；供应链交货时间长；修复供应链中的流程所有者和不一致的激励措施被认为是二十六个脆弱因素中最关键的因素。研究得出的结论是，不仅供应链漫长而复杂，而且企业采用的供应链实践也会增加供应链的脆弱性。对脆弱性因素的相对评估使专业人员能够采取适当的缓解策略，使供应链更加稳健。这项研究还建立了一个针对供应链内部且可控的脆弱因素的模型。