Original title: Viable supply chain model: integrating agility, resilience and sustainability perspectives—lessons from and thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
A supply chain is the network that gets goods from suppliers to customers. The paper describes a viable supply chain as one that can change its structure when conditions change. It combines agilityThe ability to respond to changes, including positive ones., which helps it respond to positive change; resilienceThe ability to absorb disruptions, recover, and survive., which helps it absorb disruption and recover; and sustainability, which focuses on surviving long-term change. The key is having ways to move between different supply-chain designs, not just one fixed plan.
Imagine a kitchen that has to keep serving meals when ingredients arrive late or the menu changes. A fixed recipe and schedule can fail when the ingredients or demand shift, so the kitchen needs ways to rearrange its plan. In this paper, the kitchen's different meal plans stand for supply-chain designs, and its ability to switch between them stands for the mechanisms that help a supply chain adapt and survive.
Firms depend on supply chains to keep goods moving through sudden disruptions and longer-term change. This model gives decision-makers a way to think about changing how supply and demand are connected, while also planning for recovery and long-term survival.
The abstract presents a theoretical model and framework, and says it illustrates the model at a technical level. It does not report empirical tests, measured outcomes, or evidence that using the model improves supply-chain performance.
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Viable supply chain model: integrating agility, resilience and sustainability perspectives—lessons from and thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic — Dmitry Ivanov — Annals of Operations Research — doi:10.1007/s10479-020-03640-6
Abstract licence: CC BY
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