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Paradoxes and mysteries in virus-infected supply chains: Hidden bottlenecks, changing consumer behaviors, and other non-usual suspects
Business Horizons ( IF 10.562 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-10 , DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2021.06.003
Panos Kouvelis 1
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In the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., consumers experienced surprising shortages of essential goods that appeared to be unrelated to the pandemic: toilet paper, yeast and flour, and meat cuts. The usual explanations—attributing these shortages to demand spikes—often failed to provide an adequate explanation or predicted only temporary shortages. But these shortages ended up being real supply-chain struggles for which the true causes revealed a deeper set of unusual causes. Our detailed analysis of these supply chains identifies overlooked failure factors and hidden causes. We conclude with the profound lessons learned from the pandemic crisis on supply chains and the implied challenges of building resilient supply chains for the future, which require rethinking the relevant systems we plan and optimize. The level of investment required for building firm-specific redundancy of assets and operational flexibility might be prohibitive for any one firm, or their financial stakeholders, to pursue and accept.



中文翻译:

受病毒感染的供应链中的悖论和谜团:隐藏的瓶颈、不断变化的消费者行为和其他不寻常的嫌疑人

在美国 COVID-19 大流行初期,消费者经历了与大流行似乎无关的必需品的意外短缺:卫生纸、酵母和面粉,以及切肉。通常的解释——将这些短缺归因于需求激增——往往无法提供充分的解释或仅预测暂时的短缺。但这些短缺最终成为真正的供应链斗争,真正的原因揭示了更深层次的不寻常原因。我们对这些供应链的详细分析确定了被忽视的故障因素和隐藏原因。我们总结了从供应链大流行危机中吸取的深刻教训,以及为未来构建弹性供应链的隐含挑战,这需要重新思考我们计划和优化的相关系统。

更新日期:2021-06-10
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