Trends and applications of resilience analytics in supply chain modeling: systematic literature review in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Maureen S. Golan, Laura H. Jernegan, Igor Linkov. Environment Systems and Decisions, 2020

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The increasingly global context in which businesses operate supports innovation, but also increases uncertainty around supply chain disruptions. The COVID-19 pandemic clearly shows the lack of resilience in supply chains and the impact that disruptions may have on a global network scale as individual supply chain connections and nodes fail. This cascading failure underscores the need for the network analysis and advanced resilience analytics we find lacking in the existing supply chain literature. This paper reviews supply chain resilience literature that focuses on resilience modeling and quantification and connects the supply chain to other networks, including transportation and command and control. We observe a fast increase in the number of relevant papers (only 47 relevant papers were published in 2007–2016, while 94 were found in 2017–2019). We observe that specific disruption scenarios are used to develop and test supply chain resilience models, while uncertainty associated with threats including consideration of “unknown unknowns” remains rare. Publications that utilize more advanced models often focus just on supply chain networks and exclude associated system components such as transportation and command and control (C2) networks, which creates a gap in the research that needs to be bridged. The common goal of supply chain modeling is to optimize efficiency and reduce costs, but trade-offs of efficiency and leanness with flexibility and resilience may not be fully addressed. We conclude that a comprehensive approach to network resilience quantification encompassing the supply chain in the context of other social and physical networks is needed to address the emerging challenges in the field. The connection to systemic threats, such as disease pandemics, is specifically discussed.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Strategy and Management

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Supply Chain Viability and the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual and formal generalisation of four major adaptation strategies (2021, background): “…such as tsunamis or fires), SCs lacked the understanding and guidance on how to react and operate under pandemic conditions (Gholami-Zanjani et al. 2021; Golan, Jernegan, and Linkov 2020; Gupta, Ivanov, and Choi 2021; He et al. 2019; Hosseini, Ivanov, and Dolgui 2019; Tan, Cai, and Zhang 2020).”
COVID-19 pandemic related supply chain studies: A systematic review (2021, unknown): “(2020) Systematic/structured literature review 4 Golan et al. (2020); Queiroz et al. (2020); Vaio et al.”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Organizational Resilience to COVID-19 Crisis: An Empirical Study of Chinese Firms (2020, background): “Given its threat to human health, followed by mandated social distancing, lockdowns and transportation restrictions, the pandemic has profoundly hit the global economy via its pressure on supply chains [5], labor force, operation and sales of products and services [6].”