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Comparing Mitigation Strategies for Supply Chain under Operational Disruptions Using Monte Carlo Simulation

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Although supply chain disruptions have been under study since the 1990's, they attracted more attention last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only researchers, but all people realized how disruptions can negatively affect the performance of business, and supply chains. Mitigation strategies are the way to “be better prepared" for such disruptions. This paper aims at evaluating the performance of five different mitigation strategies for a multi-period supply chain under operational disruptions. The disruptions under consideration are capacity, and demand disruptions, whether separate or simultaneous. Integer linear programming is used to design the supply chain network. Monte Carlo simulation is used to evaluate the performance of the proposed mitigation strategies under different disruption scenarios. Results reveal that the mitigation strategies that perform better regarding financial performance measures, perform worse regarding customer satisfaction performance measures. The model helps decision makers to decide the most suitable mitigation strategy according to their priorities.

DOI

10.21608/pserj.2021.65383.1096

Keywords

Supply Chain, multi-interval, disruptions, Simulation, mitigation strategies

Authors

First Name

Raghda

Last Name

Taha

MiddleName

Bahaa

Affiliation

Department of Supply Chain Management College of International Transport and Logistics, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt

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raghda.bahaa@aast.edu

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Cairo

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First Name

Amin

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El-Kharbotly

MiddleName

Kamel

Affiliation

Design and Production Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt

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amin_elkharbotly@eng.asu.edu.eg

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Cairo

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First Name

Yomna

Last Name

Sadek

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Mahmoud

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Design and Production Engineering department Faculty of Engineering Ain Shams University

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yomna.sadek@eng.asu.edu.eg

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0000-0003-1969-9547

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25

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2

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27673

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2021-09-01

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2021-02-27

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2021-09-01

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170

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186

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1110-6603

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2536-9377

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Port-Said Engineering Research Journal

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Comparing Mitigation Strategies for Supply Chain under Operational Disruptions Using Monte Carlo Simulation

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22 Jan 2023