This paper deals with the emergence of supplier selection criteria in printed format. The primary aim is to associate Charles Babbage as the pioneer in putting together the supplier selection criteria in 1832. While Dickson, G W is known as the pioneer of the supplier selection process for his work in establishing a standardised supplier selection process through a study in 1966, a comparative analysis of the criteria put forward by him with that put forward by Charles Babbage does show that we can definitely assign the tag of pioneer of the supplier selection process to the Father of the Computer.

Demonetization as a tool to curb black money in the Indian economy and promote a cashless society miserably measurable failed in the aspect of social welfare and poor economics or how the economics of being poor worked. This research paper shows that the government overlooked warning signs in the form of existing available data that with fair consideration would make demonetization infeasible because of the impact on poor people particularly in rural areas.

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Supply chains are a network of intertwined nodes and routes that are normally expected to operate smoothly and allow for seamless movement of material, documentation and information two and fro its entirety. Such large networks spread over a wide area on a global scale are bound to be affected by disruptive factors both natural as well as man-made. Though some amount of research has been done on supply chain disruption, mitigation efforts, risk management, etc. a proper linkage is normally missing. Also very little research has been done on continuity. This paper does a selective literature review of selected papers covering various areas of supply chain disruption management under exogenous shock conditions like natural disasters and solutions and links the recent innovation of drone technology to disaster recovery and mitigation efforts and ensuring supply chain continuity. While commercial drones are under test usage by variety of organizations, this paper also assesses certain selected drone types for their compatibility and future modified usage in disaster recovery and supply chain continuity after natural disasters.

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