Viability and Resilience in the Personal Protective Equipment Supply Chain. the Impacts of Covid-19

The recent Covid-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions in healthcare systems, in particular in the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) supply chain. The present paper aims at studying the effects of Covid-19 on its main supply chain variables and at investigating how viability and resilience concepts were applied during this period. A Systematic Literature Review helps identify the variables and strategies most commonly considered, forming the basis of a survey then carried out among French and Italian companies operating in the PPE supply chain. The results allow to derive both academic and practical implications. Copyright (C) 2024 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)