“…Network design level Impact of the ripple effect on SC resilience and robustness;Sensitivity of different SC designs to the ripple effect;Criticality of some nodes/arcs in the SC for the ripple effect dispersal Lei et al (2020), Dubey et al (2020), Mishra et al (2020), Brintrup, Chauhan, and Perera (2020), Liu et al (2020) Process planning level Proactive policies to mitigate the ripple effect (i.e. inventory and capacity buffers, backup sourcing, product substitution) Ma, He, and Gu (2020), Özçelik, Yılmaz, and Yeni (2020), Azaron, Venkatadri, and Doost (2020), Jahani et al (2020), Gholami-Zanjani et al (2020) Operative control level Reactive policy deployments for ripple effect control and recovery Choi (2020), Lee, Yoon, and Lee (2020) Table 1 provides an overview of the papers included in this special issue, their methodologies and major outcomes. In Table 2, the contributions shown in Table 1 are divided into a three-level structure following the classification proposed by Ivanov and Dolgui (2020c).…”