Modeling the impact of large-scale disruptions on supply chain networks and their recovery
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Authors
Ni, Ni
Issue Date
2019-08
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Decision sciences and engineering systems
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Abstract
As the world becomes increasingly turbulent and interlinked, supply chains are vulnerable to disruptions during extreme events such as hurricanes or earthquakes. It is increasingly important to measure the capability of supply chains to mitigate and recover from disruptions on different segments of supply chains. As a result, challenges for designing and operating resilient supply chains include the impact of disruptions on the production segment of supply chains, for example, damage to the facilities or suppliers of the system, those on the logistics segment, for example, damage to the terminals of multimodal freight transportation system, and those on the distribution segment, for example, damage to the retailers and `last mile' distribution of commodities within a certain area under disrupted local infrastructures (e.g., power, water, sewage, telecommunication and transportation systems). This dissertation focuses on three topics relating to this challenge: (1) designing resilient supply chains against disruptions on the production segment while modeling the impact of unmet demand on its customers, (2) examining the impact of disruptions on the logistics segment and modeling the rerouting of freight movement, and (3) modeling the impact of disruptions on the distribution segment in terms of the distribution of critical commercial services within a specific area where civil infrastructures have been damaged by extreme events.
Description
August 2019
School of Engineering
School of Engineering
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Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY