A collaborative approach to maintaining optimal inventory and mitigating stockout risks during a pandemic: capabilities for enabling health-care supply chain resilience, with Derek Friday, David Savage, Steven Melnyk, Norma Harrison, and Suzanne Ryan.
Highlights
Inventory management systems in health-care supply chains (HCSC) have been pushed to breaking point by the COVID-19 pandemic. Unanticipated demand shocks due to stockpiling of medical supplies caused stockouts, and the stockouts triggered systematic supply chain (SC) disruptions inconceivable for risk managers working individually with limited information about the pandemic. The purpose of this paper is to respond to calls from the United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO) for coordinated global action by proposing a research agenda based on a review of current knowledge and knowledge gaps on the role of collaboration in HCSCs in maintaining optimal stock levels and reinforcing resilience against stockout disruptions during pandemics.
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Reception
Winner of the Emerald 2022 Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management Outstanding Paper Literari Award. https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jhlscm/journal-humanitarian-logistics-and-supply-chain-management-literati-award-winners-1
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Friday, D., Savage, D. A., Melnyk, S. A., Harrison, N., Ryan, S., & Wechtler, H. (2021). A collaborative approach to maintaining optimal inventory and mitigating stockout risks during a pandemic: capabilities for enabling health-care supply chain resilience. Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management.