A System Thinking Approach for Social and Environmental Risks in Supply Chains

Oliveira, Fabíola Negreiros de; Cunha, Luiza Ribeiro Alves; Fontainha, Tharcisio Cotta; Leiras, Adriana; Ceryno, Paula Santos

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-56920-4_34

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“…For instance, in 2020, 389 disasters affected 98.4 million people worldwide and cost US$ 171.3 billion (CRED, 2021). During disasters, SCs face impacts such as instability in production and inventory (Lim and Tan, 2018), transportation disruption (Davies et al, 2017), supply and demand fluctuation (Pratama et al, 2021), damage to premises, equipment, and vehicles (Asgary et al, 2012), and coordination problems (Cardoso et al, 2021;de Oliveira et al, 2020). Being prepared for such disruptions is challenging; however, it is possible to mitigate the eventualities through contingency plans and effective strategies to increase SC responsiveness (Abe and Ye, 2013;Boyacι-Gündüz et al, 2021;Cordeiro et al, 2021a).These SC strategies involve activities that are fundamental to the normal flow of the operation, such as strategic purchases (Lamenza et al, 2019), social media and digital platforms (Cordeiro et al, 2021b;Eckhardt et al, 2022), information sharing (Ding et al, 2021), and collaboration with stakeholders (Cundell et al, 2020).…”

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Disasters’ impact on supply chains and countermeasure strategies: an overview of the academic literature’ nature

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Leiras

2022

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Goal: This paper investigates the nature of the academic literature on the disasters’ impacts on Supply Chains (SC) and the strategies adopted to minimize their adverse effects. Design / Methodology / Approach: Based on a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), we conduct a bibliometric analysis of 129 documents to assess the significant publications’ characteristics regarding year, trend topics, journals, authors, papers more cited, keywords co-occurrence, disasters, SC type, and preliminary identification of disasters’ impacts and countermeasure strategies. Results: The results show that most studies address natural disasters (e.g., floods, earthquakes, pandemics), and a significant number of documents refer to the food SC. Our findings indicate that the main impacts are: SC instability, supplies shortages, transport and distribution disruption, production and operation disruption, cash flow problems, and productivity reduction; and the main strategies: agility, the collaboration between SC links, organizational flexibility, information sharing, financial and inventory management, digital transformation, government policies, and benchmarking. Limitations of the investigation: This is a qualitative study with a preliminary examination of the topic through bibliometric results, and for this reason, the content analysis of the documents is outside the scope of the paper. Practical implications: The findings of this study provide preliminary insights for SC practitioners into the main countermeasures strategies performed to respond to the SC impacts during a disaster. Originality / Value: The results contribute to a holistic perspective of the topic, which involves the main features of existing studies in the literature.

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