Original title: Impacts of epidemic outbreaks on supply chains: mapping a research agenda amid the COVID-19 pandemic through a structured literature review
A supply chain is the route goods take from suppliers to the people who use them. This paper reviews research on how epidemics affect those routes, especially in commercial businesses, which had received less attention than humanitarian logisticsPlanning how to move and distribute supplies for people affected by disasters or emergencies.. It finds that influenza was the most commonly reported outbreak and that studies often focused on allocating and distributing resources. The review organizes the issues into six perspectives, from preparedness and adaptation to recovery and sustainability, and sets out questions for future research.
Imagine a grocery store trying to keep shelves stocked when a storm delays deliveries. The hard part is that one missing shipment can leave several shelves empty, and the store must decide what to do now and how to recover later. In this paper, the storm stands for an epidemic, the delayed deliveries stand for supply-chain disruption, and the different ways the store responds map to the review's six perspectives.
Outbreaks can disrupt the supply chains that businesses use to move goods around the globe. This review gives researchers and practitioners a map of topics to investigate, including how supply chains can prepare, adapt, recover, and become more sustainable.
The abstract describes a review of existing publications and a proposed research agenda; it does not establish how well the six-perspective framework works in practice or whether any particular intervention improves supply-chain outcomes. It does not provide details about the review's search scope or selection criteria.
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Impacts of epidemic outbreaks on supply chains: mapping a research agenda amid the COVID-19 pandemic through a structured literature review — Maciel Manoel de Queiroz, Dmitry Ivanov, Alexandre B. Dolgui et al. — Annals of Operations Research — doi:10.1007/s10479-020-03685-7
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