Background: Disruptions in freight transportation-such as service delays, infrastructure failures, and labor strikes-pose significant challenges to the reliability and efficiency of intermodal networks. To address these challenges, this study introduces Adaptive Intermodal Transportation (AIT),...

Background: In today's complex and rapidly changing global markets, supply chain resilience (SCR) has become critical for businesses aiming to maintain continuity and competitive advantage. Disruptions and challenges in the supply chain will always exist; therefore, preparing in advance and...

We study how global supply chain disruptions affect monetary policy transmission. Post-pandemic evidence indicates surging transportation costs, goods-market imbalances, and rising prices. We develop a model in which logistical bottlenecks (upstream slack coexisting with downstream shortages)...

Background: Foundational research on the gamma distribution and inventory control highlighted its flexibility and practicality for managing fast-moving finished goods. Nonetheless, concerns remain about conventional statistical approximations of lead-time demand (LTD) distributions. Real-world...

Background: The COVID-19 was a determining factor in the disruption of supply chains in the automotive industry, exacerbating material shortages. This led to increased supplier order cancelations, longer lead times, and reduced safety inventory levels. Methods: This study analyzes and models...

Disruptive events like the COVID-19 pandemic have exposed supply chain vulnerabilities. This study focuses on dual sourcing as a resilient strategy and examines a stochastic, single-item, multi-echelon, multi-period, dual sourcing inventory system under backorders. In each echelon, the...

Maintenance is pivotal in the industrial sector, influencing efficiency, reliability, safety, and profitability. An organized spare parts inventory supports maintenance efforts by minimizing downtime, ensuring safety, and optimizing maintenance budgets. Effective spare parts management enhances...

The concept of circular public procurement has been developed as an approach that extends the green public procurement one, recognising the relevance of circular economy-related dimensions in green public procurement procedures, such as resource reuse and efficiency. This notwithstanding, the...

This study explores the impact of COVID-19-related supply chain disruptions on manufacturing firms, focusing on external risks: demand, environmental, and supply. Our literature review reveals the general lack of comprehensive disruption plans and exposes the vulnerabilities in manufacturing...

Background: Defining the optimal fleet portfolio is a crucial process in airline planning. The published efforts in literature provide ways to anticipate the disruption effects on the passenger demand; however, the proposed solution in this paper provides visibility on the impact of sustainable...

Background: The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events (EWEs) as a consequence of climate change pose critical challenges on the transport and logistics sector, hence requiring systematic evaluation and strategic adaptation. Methods: This study conducts a comprehensive...

Background: Cross-border suppliers have always been points of disruption, further impacting international trade, businesses, and societies along the chain. Understanding the current resilience capabilities of cross-border suppliers is a stepping-stone to implementing resilience initiatives and...

Navigating the complexities of perishable food supply chains is becoming increasingly challenging due to short product shelf lives and unpredictable market demands. Recent global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions, have amplified these difficulties, creating...

Inflation rate is considered undesirable in the modern globalized world due to its adverse and long-lasting impacts. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA, hereafter) has also experienced inflationary pressure during the last few years, specifically post-COVID-19. However, the empirical literature on...

In this paper we provide a simple and intuitive story for supply chain disruptions driven by the rigidities in the transportation sector. Focusing on maritime shipping, we argue that the frequent macroeconomic shocks that shape demand for transportation, meet a highly inelastic supply curve for...

This paper examines how firms’ exposure to supply chain disruptions (SCD) affects firm outcomes in the European Union (EU). Exploiting heterogeneous responses to workplace closures imposed by sourcing countries during the pandemic as a shock to SCD, we provide empirical evidence that firms in...

Purpose - In today's volatile business environment, firms are required to balance cost efficiency, sustainability and operational resilience to sustain competitiveness. Supplier selection plays a pivotal role in this context; however, traditional models often fail to capture disruption risks...

Global chokepoints such as the Panama Canal propagate drought shocks into supply chains, yet disruptions to shipments remain poorly investigated. We examine the impact of supply chain disruptions induced by the 2022-2023 Panama Canal drought on Asia-United States (US) trade flows. We fuse...

Background: The management of inventory under realistic supply chain disruptions, which are often non-exponential, challenges classical control theory. This study addresses the critical question of whether the optimality of simple base-stock policies holds under the combined influence of...

The COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine have complicated macroeconomic forecasting and policymaking due to unprecedented disruptions in supply chains and energy markets, suggesting a new macroeconomic regime. However, we are unable to reject the null hypothesis of no structural...

This study presents a meta-analysis of the Value of Lost Load (VoLL) to support countries seeking to implement value-based reliability planning in electricity markets. VoLL serves as a key indicator in addressing the missing money problem and promoting efficient investment in generation and...

Humanitarian logistics plays a vital role in disaster management. However, it often faces the challenge of unpredictable road conditions when solving relief prepositioning problems to effectively respond to natural disasters. This study examines the location-allocation problem in humanitarian...