Supply chain management in case of producer disruption between external (instable) forces and effective models

Abstract

Recent global events, i.e. Covid 19 pandemic and Ukraine war, strongly changed both the perception of the supply chain weakness and the people purchasing behavior. From one hand, we observed how the supply chain disruption may appear in any level due to factory closing, quarantines, accidents. On the other hand, also producer disruption has been recently experienced due to the Ukraine conflict. In those cases, people behavior changes accordingly but new global models able to manage uncertainty could help the decision makers to prevent some population shocks. Within a so complex environment, the supply chains demonstrate to be vulnerable and subjected to disruption. The literature is full of contributions on bibliometric analysis for identifying the most influential authors, organizations and countries facing the supply chain disruption challenges, as well as contributions related to the network analysis for visualizing the relationships between authorship, citations, or common terms in publications. However, a great part of the published works consists in quite general and qualitative descriptions of disruption mitigating strategies and there is a gap in presenting holistic and detailed analysis. In this paper, a bibliometric literature review (BLR) has been carried out, in order to discover the emerging topics which are representative of the new researchers’ thinking about SC. It comes out that the investigation of new models to manager uncertainty, the risk management, the management of inventory and the coordination of SC and strategies are the issues that need to be investigated. Finally, a scheme of the stakeholder behavior and some up to date models to manage the supply chain under risk condition are presented.