Contingency planning for health care worker masks in case of medical supply chain failure: Lessons learned in novel mask manufacturing from COVID-19 pandemic

Cumbler, Ethan; Wittig, Monika; Jacobson, Nicholas C.; McClain, Hayden; Treat, Aaron; Radin, Jonathan R.; Stowell, Sara; Harry, Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2021.07.018

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“…The World Health Organization announced a scarcity of PPE by March 2020, putting healthcare workers worldwide in jeopardy. According to estimates, the industry would need to expand the production of medical masks by 40% if it wanted to prevent frontline personnel from being "dangerously ill-equipped to care for COVID-19 patients" [145]. Therefore, it was necessary to analyze different aspects of the mask SC to optimize the recovery strategies [146], tackle arising problems such the mask SC sustainability [147], and employ additive manufacturing to provide face masks [148].…”

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Bibliometric and Text Analytics Approaches to Review COVID-19 Impacts on Supply Chains

2022

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The current COVID-19 pandemic has virtually disrupted supply chains worldwide. Thus, supply chain research has received significant attention. While the impacts have been immeasurable, organizations have realized the need to design strategies to overcome such unexpected events. Therefore, the supply chain research landscape has evolved to address the challenges during the pandemic. However, available literature surveys have not explored the power of text analytics. Hence, in this review, an analysis of the supply chain literature related to the impacts of COVID-19 is performed to identify the current research trends and future research avenues. To discover the frequent topics discussed in the literature, bibliometric analysis (i.e., keyword co-occurrence network) and text mining tools (i.e., N-gram analysis and topic modeling) are employed for the whole corpus and the top-three contributing journals (i.e., Sustainability, International Journal of Logistics Management, Operations Management Research). Moreover, text analytics (i.e., Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency: TF-IDF) is utilized to discover the distinctive topics in the corpus and per journals. A total of 574 papers published up to the first semester of 2022 were collected from the Scopus database to determine the research trends and opportunities. The keyword network identified four clusters considering the implementation of digitalization to achieve resilience and sustainability, the usage of additive manufacturing during the pandemic, the study of food supply chains, and the development of supply chain decision models to tackle the pandemic. Moreover, the segmented keyword network analysis and topic modeling were performed for the top three contributors. Although both analyses draw the research concentrations per journal, the keyword network tends to provide a more general scope, while the topic modeling gives more specific topics. Furthermore, TF-IDF scores unveiled topics rarely studied, such as the implications of the pandemic on plasma supply chains, cattle supply chains, and reshoring decisions, to mention a few. Additionally, it was observed how the different methodologies implemented allowed to complement the information provided by each method. Based on the findings, future research avenues are discussed. Therefore, this research will help supply chain practitioners and researchers to identify supply chain advancements, gaps in the literature and future research streams.

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Bibliometric and Text Analytics Approaches to Review COVID-19 Impacts on Supply Chains

2022

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“…Concerns about the reliability and authenticity of online healthcare products and services arise (Siyal et al, 2019). Healthcare providers may lack awareness and knowledge of OHCSCM technologies, hindering adoption (Chang et al, 2023).…”

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Strategizing the online healthcare supply chain management in rural areas: A study of critical success factors

Sarkar,

Kharde,

Bakshi

2023

Bus Strat Dev

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Online healthcare supply chain management (OHCSCM) in rural areas is a matter of concern and is susceptible to policy changes, especially after the alarms raised by the COVID‐19 pandemic. This study aims to develop an approach towards examining the state and building a framework for examining the OHCSCM in rural areas. The study develops a framework by integrating various theories and methodologies like stakeholders' theory, critical success factor (CSF) theory, triple bottom line theory, fuzzy set theory, evidential reasoning approach, and scenario analysis for identifying the dynamism among the CSFs. The developed framework helps prioritize the CSFs based on environmental, economic, and social perspectives. Further, the model helps create scenarios for decision‐makers to improve the understanding of the CSFs influencing OHCSCM and achieve sustainability. The study reveals that infrastructure development, security and privacy of data, and use of predictive tools are the top factors that need immediate attention. By recognizing the interdependencies and interactions between these factors, managers can develop a more comprehensive and integrated approach to OHCSCM in rural areas. This understanding enables them to identify potential bottlenecks, streamline processes, and optimize resource allocation, ultimately saving valuable time and resources for achieving sustainability in the online healthcare supply chain in rural areas.

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“…However, the uncertainty and periodicity of the COVID-19 pandemic led to the vulnerability or even disruption of the mask supply chain due to the sharp increase or drop in mask sales. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the green level and resilience of the mask supply chain to reduce the environmental pollution in the process of mask supply and reduce the risk shocks in the mask supply chain [ 8 ].…”

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Research on the Anti-Risk Mechanism of Mask Green Supply Chain from the Perspective of Cooperation between Retailers, Suppliers, and Financial Institutions

Chen

Wang

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Against the background of the pandemic, the mask supply chain faces the risk of pollution caused by discarded masks, the risk of insufficient funds of retailers, and the risk of mask overstock. To better guard against the above risks, this study constructed a two-party game model and a cusp catastrophe model from the perspective of the mask green supply chain, and studied the strategic choices of retailers and suppliers in the supply chain affected by the risk of capital constraints and overstock. The result shows that the risk shocks will lead to the disruption of the mask green supply chain, and the main factors affecting the strategy choice of mask suppliers and retailers are mask recycling rate, deposit ratio, risk occurrence time, etc. In further research, this study involved a mechanism for financial institutions, mask retailers, and the government to jointly deal with the risk of mask overstock, the risk of retailers’ insufficient funds, and the risk of environmental pollution from discarded masks. The research path and conclusion of this study reveal the risks in the circulation area of mask supplies during the pandemic, and provide recommendations for planning for future crises and risk prevention.

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Contingency planning for health care worker masks in case of medical supply chain failure: Lessons learned in novel mask manufacturing from COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Bibliometric and Text Analytics Approaches to Review COVID-19 Impacts on Supply Chains

Bibliometric and Text Analytics Approaches to Review COVID-19 Impacts on Supply Chains

Strategizing the online healthcare supply chain management in rural areas: A study of critical success factors

Research on the Anti-Risk Mechanism of Mask Green Supply Chain from the Perspective of Cooperation between Retailers, Suppliers, and Financial Institutions

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