Biomass supply chain network design under uncertainty, risk and resilience: A systematic literature review

Abstract

Biomass supply chain faces numerous challenges, uncertainties and risks. Resilience holds the key for effectively addressing these dynamic challenges and uncertainties and risks inherent in biomass supply chain management. This paper aims to highlight the uncertainty, risk, and resilience, which are significant concepts of biomass supply chain network design, with a systematic literature review. An innovative classification scheme is developed to combine these concepts from an operational research perspective. First, the articles are investigated according to the sources of uncertainty, risk management, resilient network designs, and detailed subcategories. Then, the problem characteristics, modeling uncertainty, and solution methods are analyzed. This systematic literature review serves as a guide for further studies by analyzing uncertainty, risk, and resilience in the biomass supply chain network design, and identifies a list of potential issues for future research directions.