An Integrative approach to supply chain disruption risk and resilience management: a literature review

ABSTRACT

A fundamental question in supply chain resilience is identifying its antecedents and investigating the relative importance of each antecedent in improving resilience to supply chain disruptions. In this paper, a comprehensive systematic literature review is conducted to assess the impact of each of the most widely known practices to enhance resilience (flexibility, agility, redundancy, and collaboration) on mitigating each type of supply chain disruption (demand, supply, process, control, and environmental disruptions). The literature review found that collaboration has been identified by the literature as the most important strategy to cope with control disruptions, and flexibility has been identified by the literature as the most important strategy to cope with demand, supply, process, and environmental disruptions. A framework is then developed for identifying the appropriate antecedents in improving resilience to different types of supply chain disruptions.

KEYWORDS:

• Supply chain resilience
• supply chain risk management
• risk types
• flexibility
• agility
• collaboration
• redundancy
• literature review

Acknowledgments

This research is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant numbers 1238878 and 1533681. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 To effectively search and find these terms in the databases, the closest root to the original terms (words) was used. For example: “flexib*” searches for any word that starts with “flexib” (Ali, Mahfouz, and Arisha 2017).

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Funding

This work was supported by National Science Foundation.