Managing and Repairing Supply Chains upon Disruptions

Supply chain serves as a critical infrastructure that contributes to the value creation for firms. To help organizations mitigate the negative impacts of disruption, this chapter provides a conceptual foundation for supply chains upon disruptions, identifies the endogenous and exogeneous sources of supply chain disruptions, and explores key concepts essential to the repair of supply chain disruptions. Specifically, this chapter prescribes the mitigation strategies to repair damages of the disruptions from the perspectives of buyers and suppliers, respectively. While the knowledge of managing and repairing supply chains upon disruptions remains limited, this chapter highlights a few directions for future research.