Viable supply chain model: integrating agility, resilience and sustainability
perspectives-lessons from and thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
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Ivanov D
Ann Oper Res
2022[]; 319
(1
): 1411-1431
PMID32836614
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Viability is the ability of a supply chain (SC) to maintain itself and survive in
a changing environment through a redesign of structures and replanning of
performance with long-term impacts. In this paper, we theorize a new notion-the
viable supply chain (VSC). In our approach, viability is considered as an
underlying SC property spanning three perspectives, i.e., agility, resilience,
and sustainability. The principal ideas of the VSC model are adaptable structural
SC designs for supply-demand allocations and, most importantly, establishment and
control of adaptive mechanisms for transitions between the structural designs.
Further, we demonstrate how the VSC components can be categorized across
organizational, informational, process-functional, technological, and financial
structures. Moreover, our study offers a VSC framework within an SC ecosystem. We
discuss the relations between resilience and viability. Through the lens and
guidance of dynamic systems theory, we illustrate the VSC model at the technical
level. The VSC model can be of value for decision-makers to design SCs that can
react adaptively to both positive changes (i.e., the agility angle) and be able
to absorb negative disturbances, recover and survive during short-term
disruptions and long-term, global shocks with societal and economical
transformations (i.e., the resilience and sustainability angles). The VSC model
can help firms in guiding their decisions on recovery and re-building of their
SCs after global, long-term crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We emphasize
that resilience is the central perspective in the VSC guaranteeing viability of
the SCs of the future. Emerging directions in VSC research are discussed.
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