Decision-Making Approaches to Support the Sustainability of Supply Chain System in Pandemic Disruptions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 28470
Special Issue Editors
Interests: supply chain management, decision making and uncertainty, sustainable development, strategic management
Interests: multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM); multi-objective decision-making (MODM); sustainability modelling; green supplychain management; manufacturing process optimization; fuzzy; rough and neutrosophic theories
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Interests: sustainable and resilient supply chains; food waste management; multi-objective optimization; MCDM analysis; ICT in supply chain management, circular economy; SCM and I. 4.0
Interests: addressing and solving problems at the interface of climate change and sustainability that arise in many different fields, such as supply chain, energy efficiency, low-carbon economy, carbon capture and storage, smart city, smart manufacturing, sustainable sourcing, sustainable and resilience supply chain, and sustainable operations management; the integration of disruptive technology, business processes, and operations research methods, which plays a key role in understanding and solving complex problems; integrating mathematical models, big data, blockchain, and internet technology to understand, model, and provide practical solutions to companies and organizations that need to address climate change and sustainability problems; sustainable development goals
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In critical times, when human estimations collapse by unpredicted events and disasters, the structure and formation of societal infrastructure become very significant. The risk of spreading a virus in the COVID-19 pandemic situation is becoming a globalized problem which has stopped economies, blocked the doors of industrial units, and silenced the engines of production systems. During this phase, roles of sustainable supply chains, operations, and circular economy are becoming more significant than before.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has created massive disruptions in supply, demand, and production. Such an outbreak reveals the darkness in non-dynamism supply chains (Ivanov, 2020; Mohammed, 2020). It is obvious that COVID-19 proved that many organizations are still not totally aware and could have educated their managers about the possible significant risks of COVID-19 like disruptions on their global supply chain relationships. The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) reported that 75% of companies expect decreased revenue at an average of 5.6% due to the COVID-19 disruption (Bridget McCrea, 2020). Fortune (Fortune, 2020) announced 940 fortune companies perceived COVID-19 pandemic as supply chain disruptions. Similarly, recently, Dun & Bradstreet (2020) reported that the city of Wuhan, where COVID-19 was first reported, hosts one or more direct suppliers for 51,000 firms and one or more tier-two suppliers for least 5 million firms around the world.
This Special Issue (SI) aims to address the advantages and consequences of a dynamic and resilient supply chain system along with its connected elements. It endeavors to establish analytical and intelligent models for the issues and problems, as consequences by COVID-19. The SI would also help researchers and practitioners to answer questions such as: how could decision-making help managers in managing their supply chain risks? How would decision-making improve global supply chains in recovering from COVID- 19 pandemic disruptions in future? How would Industry 4.0 applications help in improving supply chain risk management?
This SI looks for novel ideas, strategies, and models first to aid the economy, and then to push industrial and production partners to rethink, feed, and maintain the local and international markets after COVID-19 disruption. All types of methodologies such as, but not limited to, qualitative and quantitative empirical research, operations research and operations management, and simulation and mathematical modeling are welcome. We especially welcome multidisciplinary studies that link sustainability and resiliency in supply chain risk management. Prospective authors have to point out problems in the fundamental disciplines like operations management, sustainability, circular economy, supply chain and logistics, industry 4.0, manufacturing and production, development, and marketing to name a few.
Dr. Morteza Yazdani
Dr. Prasenjit Chatterjee
Dr. Ahmed Maher
Prof. Ernesto DR Santibanez Gonzalez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Supply chain disruption
- Operations management
- Decision-making theories
- Pandemic
- Marketing
- Sustainability
- Development
- Circular Economy
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