Building Resilience in Closed-Loop Supply Chains through Information-Sharing Mechanisms

Domínguez, Roberto; Ponte, Borja; Cannella, Salvatore; Framiñán, José M.

doi:10.3390/su11236746

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“…Seamless information sharing [28,29] Implementing an integrated database in internal supply chains [28] Early warning communication [30] Making the supply chains visible and transparent using blockchain technology, big data and digital technologies [25] Organization level…”

Section: Resilient Supply Chainsmentioning

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Alleviating the Bauxite Maritime Supply Chain Risks through Resilient Strategies: QFD-MCDM with Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision Approach

2023

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With the development of the global economy and energy supply chain, the uncertainty and complexity of the bauxite maritime supply chain (BMSC) has been further increased. Determining the crucial risks and improving the supply chain’s resilient capacity based on operation objectives has become important, in order to ensure the sustainability and competitiveness of the BMSC. This paper combines quality function deployment (QFD), a multi-criteria decision method (MCDM), and intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS); an integrated methodology is developed to achieve efficient design of BMSC resilient strategies (RESs), taking into account both customer requirements (CRs) and risk factors (RFs). A combined weighting method is employed to determine each CR’s importance. A decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method is adopted to determine the RFs’ interrelationships. The results obtained with the MCDM are incorporated into QFD to construct a two-stage house of quality (HoQ) model, which transforms CRs into RFs, and then into RESs. The real case of the Guinea–China bauxite import supply chain is studied to demonstrate the applicability and validity of the proposed framework. Research results reveal that the most important CR is ‘stability’. ‘Information sharing asymmetry’, ‘poor ship stability or obsolete equipment performance’, and ‘lack of coordination between shipping and ports’ are the most severe risks impacting the operation of supply chain. Furthermore, ‘constructing strategic alliances’ contributes to alleviating potential risks, optimizing the allocation of resources, and finally, improving the resilience of the BMSC significantly. This paper will help managers to understand how to achieve sustainable development of the supply chain through resilient strategies, and will aid rational decision-making in the management and operation of a resilient BMSC for alleviating risk.

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Section: Resilient Supply Chainsmentioning

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Alleviating the Bauxite Maritime Supply Chain Risks through Resilient Strategies: QFD-MCDM with Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision Approach

2023

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“…The same applies to those papers investigating the trade-offs between efficiency and resilience, which have primarily focused on traditional systems. Nevertheless, closed-loop supply chains also need to gain resilience to accelerate the global transition towards more sustainable economic models (Cardoso et al 2015 ; Dominguez et al 2019b ; del Rosario et al 2020 ).…”

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Examining the balance between efficiency and resilience in closed-loop supply chains

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Pino

2021

Cent Eur J Oper Res

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We study a hybrid system where the demand of customers can be satisfied by both manufacturing new products and remanufacturing used products. To manage the serviceable inventory, we implement a proportional order-up-to (POUT) replenishment policy. In this context, we first analyse the system efficiency by assessing its capacity to meet customer demand in a cost-effective manner. To this end, we consider both inventory performance (i.e., the balance between inventory holding and stock-out costs) and production smoothness (by measuring the Bullwhip effect in the supply chain). Second, we investigate the system resilience to demand volatility. In particular, we explore the impact of demand shocks on the inventory and production of the closed-loop system. Interestingly, we find that tuning the POUT controller to optimise efficiency may be problematic in terms of resilience to demand shocks. In this sense, a key trade-off exists that needs to be carefully considered by supply chain managers. Linking efficiency to resilience in such supply chains thus becomes essential to strengthen the transition towards more circular economic models. All in all, our analysis, via control-theoretic and simulation techniques, provides professionals with valuable insights into how to identify the appropriate ‘formula’ for building both efficient and resilient closed-loop supply chains.

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Closed-Loop Supply Chain

Framiñán¹

2021

Modelling Supply Chain Dynamics

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Building Resilience in Closed-Loop Supply Chains through Information-Sharing Mechanisms

Cited by 5 publications

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Alleviating the Bauxite Maritime Supply Chain Risks through Resilient Strategies: QFD-MCDM with Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision Approach

Alleviating the Bauxite Maritime Supply Chain Risks through Resilient Strategies: QFD-MCDM with Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision Approach

Examining the balance between efficiency and resilience in closed-loop supply chains

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