There’s no single reason why supply chain issues are still haunting both big and small retailers. There seems to be a perfect storm of supply chain issues: international conflicts, budget cuts, climate issues, labor shortages, and financial downturns. Each supply chain disruption makes it difficu...
Blockchain technology has recently been integrated with the Internet of Things (IoT) for real-time monitoring and tracing of physical data (Pelé et al.,2022; Zhu et al.,2022). Considering the logistics part of very short shelf-life food products, maintaining the cold-chain is particularly im...
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CPB causes “supply shortfalls and supply chain difficulties” (Loxton et al.,2020, p. 168). The state-wide lockdowns (and sometimes scam around these) during COVID-19 have triggered CPB at different outlets e.g., supermarkets, which increased SCD (Ahinkorah et al.,2020). Sim et al....
Our approach is agnostic to the economic shocks the firms in the source countries suffer. We are assuming a complete failure and removal of a firm from the production network, to subsequently study the emerging disruption chainsceteris paribus. We simulate the spread of short term shocks, until ...
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(2020)). While nickel appeared to be less critical back then, recent developments seem to point to a potential disruption for this metal (see e.g. Rystad (2021)). Given the problems associated with cobalt supply and pricing (Banza Lubaba Nkulu et al., 2018), OEMs pledge to be trying...
artificial intelligence; blockchain; supply chain; optimization; disruption; operations1. Introduction The supply chain is a symbiotic playmaker connecting customers and suppliers [1]. It also brings together a smooth flow of materials and finished products to create value for organizations [2,3,4]...
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Case in point:Pre-pandemic research from the McKinsey Global Institutefound that on average, companies experience a disruption of 1-2 months in duration every 3.7 years. Fast forward to present day, and more than half of executives do not expect a return to a “norm...