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Disruptions in Logistics and Supply Chain: Contemporary Challenges and Trends
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Disruptions in Logistics and Supply Chain: Contemporary Challenges and Trends

A special issue of Logistics (ISSN 2305-6290). This special issue belongs to the section "Supplier, Government and Procurement Logistics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2020)

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Joan Mileski

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Guest Editor
Department of Maritime Business Administration, Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX, USA
Interests: maritime resilience; security; transportation operations strategy
Dr. Cassia Galvao

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Guest Editor
Department of Maritime Business Administration, Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX, USA
Interests: maritime transportation; seaborne trade; international shipping; port resilience

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce this Special Issue of Logistics (ISSN 2305-6290) under the call of “Disruptions in Logistics and Supply Chain: Contemporary Challenges and Trends”. Many of us investigating and working with domestic and international logistics have observed or experienced some kind of major disruption.

Disrupted logistics is broadly defined here as the interruption or complete break of the supply chain operations and flow at one or multiple levels (physical, financial, cybernetic, etc.). The disruptive forces might be related to natural phenomena such as weather (storms, hurricanes, typhoons, floods, droughts); seismic events (earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic eruptions); pandemic (MERS, SARS, and more recently COVID-19); or man-made situations like terrorist attacks, cyber-attacks, piracy, major strikes, and other accidents or human error. The magnitude of a disruptive force effect varies from case to case. However, regardless of its original cause (natural or man-made), those disrupting events have the power to cause severe stress and multilevel of consequences for public and private actors involved in the transportation and logistics fields. Furthermore, in the context of integrated logistics, oftentimes practicing lean and just-in-time techniques, the consequences of disruptions have the potential to quickly spread to various sectors, worsening the socio-economic–environmental impacts.

This Special Issue encourages the submission of research articles, review articles, as well as short communications covering a wide array of topics related to disrupted logistics, including not only the typical operational issues but also financial, human resources, legal, safety and security aspects impacted by a disruption in logistics.

It is also important to highlight that papers might cover any stage of disruptive events, such as immediate responses, planning and preparedness, lessons learned, building resilience, and long term strategies. The Editors’ original field of research is maritime and waterborne transportation; however, this Special Issue welcomes submissions in all transportation modes employing quantitative and qualitative methods to deliver high-quality and well-articulated research findings and implications. Finally, this Special Issue also promotes and supports interdisciplinary research, including but not limited to transportation, logistics, economics, operations research, management, political, legal, and social sciences.

Prof. Dr. Joan Mileski
Dr. Cassia Galvao
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Logistics is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Disrupted logistics
  • Supply chain disruptions
  • Transportation infrastructure resilience
  • Disaster relief
  • Emergency supply chain management
  • Risk assessment
  • Loss prevention and mitigation
  • Preparedness and response of the human element.

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Responding to COVID-19 Supply Chain Risks—Insights from Supply Chain Change Management, Total Cost of Ownership and Supplier Segmentation Theory
by Remko van Hoek
Logistics 2020, 4(4), 23; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/logistics4040023 - 23 Sep 2020
Cited by 34 | Viewed by 13545
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The COVID-19 pandemic is causing risks and disruptions in most supply chains. As supply chain managers are responding to these risks, several theories may inform those efforts. In this paper, we explore across seven companies in different industries, supply chain positions and countries, [...] Read more.
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing risks and disruptions in most supply chains. As supply chain managers are responding to these risks, several theories may inform those efforts. In this paper, we explore across seven companies in different industries, supply chain positions and countries, how lessons from total costs of ownership, supplier segmentation and supply chain change management theory may apply to efforts to respond to COVID-19 supply chain risks and disruptions. The findings indicate that the pandemic forces companies to consider total costs more holistically, beyond the purchase price, and that collaboration with suppliers and developing new sources of supply is of growing importance to reduce risk in the supply chain. However, the change involved in responding to risks will take time, and for many companies, the hardest work is still ahead. Our findings also paint a more nuanced and complex picture than offered in the popular press; the focus on nearshoring does not necessarily mean leaving China and the switch in total costs of ownership may only be partial and temporal. Limitations of the theories considered are identified and resulting suggestions for managers and further research are developed. Full article
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