Decision making in resilient global supply chains: A theoretical approach

Abstract

The strong competition of global supply chains in international markets requires a quick response from the decision maker that allows the resumption of interrupted operations in the presence of disruptive events. The purpose of this paper is to establish the origin of the decisions that characterize the resilient supply chains together with the tools proposed through academic and investigative efforts that allow supporting decision-making. The authors carried out a review of scientific articles published in the last 12 years, of which 67 texts related to resilience and risk management in the global supply chain were analyzed. The result of this analysis allowed to identify: i) the limited academic progress in the development of tools that support post-disruption decision-making, ii) developments to support structured and unstructured decision-making, iii) implementation initiatives intelligent systems to support decisions in the resilient supply chain, and iv) application of highly efficient algorithms developed to solve models that allow structured decision making. The results of this work are of great value to the academic and scientific community that suggests developments in the area and its concerns is the assurance of the normal operation of the global supply chains.​