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Setting Resilience Function in the Supply Chain Networks

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 11443

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Dr. Elpidio Romano

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Faculty of Engineering, Uninettuno University, 39, 00186 Roma, RM, Italy
Interests: technical and methodological decision support to produce, control and manage logistical, transportation and industrial plant systems; modeling and simulation behavior of complex systems
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Prof. Dr. Andrea Falegnami

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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering—DIMA, Sapienza University, 00184 Roma, Italy
Interests: research activity carried out in the management of risk and safety in complex sociotechnical systems (industrial plants, healthcare) with particular interest in the emerging field of resilience engineering
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The catastrophic events of recent years have shown how global business is vulnerable to unexpected and catastrophic events and have also changed the concept of disaster preparedness.

It is very likely that these events could potentially cause supply disruptions, which could have a large impact on small to large businesses throughout the complex global network. In this context of the ever-growing numbers of natural and man-made disasters, businesses in all sectors have strongly demonstrated the recent need for a change in the traditional strategies; this is particularly true for companies that are dependent on timely delivery of materials. Unfortunately, there is no way to avoid these risks. However, it has been noted that some organizations have been able to overcome these circumstances better than others. These organizations share one crucial characteristic: resilience.

Although literature has discussed several ways to increase the resilience of a single company that is part of the network system, it fails to capture a holistic view of the supply chain network. With this topic, we would like to analyze a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) in order to obtain comprehensive coverage and an analysis of the related literature. As a result of this SLR, we would like to identify the most interesting publications, authors and the most interesting techniques to investigate the near future. We are interested in understanding if there is a well-defined resilience structure; if there are procedures to evaluate or measure the resilience capabilities of a supply chain; which are the modelling and simulation techniques in use and which ones should be studied in the near future.

Prof. Dr. Elpidio Romano
Prof. Dr. Andrea Falegnami
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • resilience networks
  • resilient structures
  • supply chain management decision-making and strategies
  • construction techniques of resilient systems
  • simulation modeling to manage scenario analysis
  • resilience in the reverse logistics operations
  • operational sustainability
  • environmental and energy impacts
  • social impact
  • economic effects of network resilient strategies

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Actions and Strategies for Coronavirus to Ensure Supply Chain Resilience: A Systemic Review
by Margherita Bernabei, Silvia Colabianchi and Francesco Costantino
Sustainability 2022, 14(20), 13243; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013243 - 14 Oct 2022
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The COVID-19 outbreak adversely impacted agri-food supply chains and caused a severe socio-economic crisis worldwide. Preventive measures taken by several countries have affected production and distribution. Moreover, producers have had to face difficulties related to changes in local and international export markets, a [...] Read more.
The COVID-19 outbreak adversely impacted agri-food supply chains and caused a severe socio-economic crisis worldwide. Preventive measures taken by several countries have affected production and distribution. Moreover, producers have had to face difficulties related to changes in local and international export markets, a decrease in the labor force due to the spread of the virus, and challenges in harvesting, processing, and shipment of products. However, despite the extraordinary nature of the disruption, supply chains have demonstrated a fair, resilient, and sustainable crisis recovery. Although a large number of papers deal with supply chains and the pandemic’s impact, a review of measures implemented that comprehensively includes resilience dimensions is still lacking. The scope of this paper is to survey available literature in order to understand whether there are classes of actions and strategies undertaken by meat supply chains in managing the pandemic. Documents were reviewed through a protocol based on the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) review technique. The survey highlights which actions have enabled supply chain resilience by underling virtuous behaviors and lessons learned. These findings support the need for further investigation of supply chain resilience and offer practitioners guidance toward a greater understanding of impacts and implementable strategies. Full article
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An Optimization Model for the Design of a Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management System
by Ahmed Shaban, Fatma-Elzahraa Zaki, Islam H. Afefy, Giulio Di Gravio, Andrea Falegnami and Riccardo Patriarca
Sustainability 2022, 14(10), 6345; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14106345 - 23 May 2022
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Solid waste management is critical to sustainable, healthy, and eco-friendly cities and societies. In developing countries, only a small percentage of municipal solid waste is disposed safely, while the majority remains in the streets or disposed in open landfills. Most countries seek to [...] Read more.
Solid waste management is critical to sustainable, healthy, and eco-friendly cities and societies. In developing countries, only a small percentage of municipal solid waste is disposed safely, while the majority remains in the streets or disposed in open landfills. Most countries seek to establish effective and efficient solid waste management system (SWMS) that can handle and dispose of the daily generated waste at minimum cost and in a sustainable manner. Those systems usually consist of waste sources, waste collection stations, landfills, incinerators, and recycling plants, in addition to the transportation system that integrates the different sub-systems. The problem facing decision-makers while designing or reconfiguring a SWMS is to determine the optimal supply chain network design for such systems in a way that ensures the treatment and disposal of all daily generated waste at the lowest cost. In this context, this paper aims to develop a generic optimization model suitable for application in SWMS optimization in developing countries. A new mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model is formulated for a SWMS configuration that integrates waste generation sources, collection/transfer stations, recycling plants, incinerators, and landfills. The proposed MILP model is formulated to determine the optimal number and locations of the different facilities, and the optimal flow of waste in the system that minimizes the net daily cost incurred in the system. The model has been applied in a case study on the SWMS in Fayoum Governorate, Egypt. The main contribution of this research refers both to the theoretical development of a generic MILP model that can be applied to optimally design the SWMS in developing countries, and to its operational counterpart, as per the design solutions provided in the SWMS of Fayoum Governorate (Egypt). Full article
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