“…We now justify some assumptions and parameters used for simulation experiments. Recent literature , Lücker et al, 2019, Schmitt et al, 2017Gupta and Ivanov, 2020) has recognized the risk mitigation inventory, lead-time and backup suppliers as crucial elements affecting the SC reactions to disruptions. Moreover, the ripple effect is usually accompanying the disruptions which are rarely to be localized and usually spread over many SC echelons (Ivanov et al, 2014, Garvey et al, 2015, Dolgui et al, 2018, Ivanov et al, 2019b, Pavlov et al, 2019b, Li and Zobel, 2020.…”