A review on supply chain disturbance management research

In recent years, supply chain disturbances happen frequently, and they have seriously struck the goods flow, information flow and cash flow in the supply chains. Some supply chain disturbances even lead to the collapse of the entire supply chain and cause huge loss to the members of supply chain and even the whole industry chain. So supply chain disturbances have brought about tremendous negative effect to the logistics enterprises and society. Now quite a few scholars pay much attention to the supply chain disturbances management and contribute many useful results. This paper summarizes the major literatures that focus on supply chain disturbance origins and preventing measures, as well as emergency management and evolution mechanism of supply chain disturbance. Furthermore this paper proposes the future research directions on supply chain disturbances management, such as empirical study of origins identification and modeling research about the evolution mechanism, as well as integrated management of supply chain disturbance.