Purpose Disasters are growing in frequency and scale, unmasking the systemic vulnerabilities of modern supply chains highlighting need to understand how respond such events. In context an extreme event as COVID-19 pandemic, this research focuses on networks organizations leverage their combined resources capabilities develop, manufacture deliver new products outside traditional markets. Design/...

in the last two decades due to globalization of supply chain, enormous changes occurred in chains. leaders in this field, always facing new risks and disorders that should prepare themselves to deal with them. in the recent years, sanctions as one of the most serious risks have damaged the supply chains. however, in the research related to global supply chains, modeling of disruption has been n...

Risk and uncertainty are inherent to Supply Chains; at the execution level unexpected events can disrupt the normal flow of supply processes creating a gap between planned operations and what is actually executed. These disruptions increment rescheduling frequency, generating reconfiguration costs and system’s nervousness. This work proposes a web service based Business Process to support Auton...

In past decades, pharmaceutical supply chains (PSC) have become increasingly fragmented and complex making them more susceptible to chain (SC) risks. This has manifested in a growing number of drug shortages around the world which presents great challenge many national healthcare systems. PSC models provide crucial decision support can facilitate efforts avoid or manage such stockout situations...

Purpose: A growing need for global sourcing of business has subjected firms to higher levels of uncertainty and increased risk of supply disruption. Differences in industry and infrastructure make it more difficult for firms to manage supply disruption risks effectively. This study aims to extend developing research in this area by addressing gaps within existing literature related to environme...