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Operation and Supply Chain Risk Management

A special issue of Systems (ISSN 2079-8954). This special issue belongs to the section "Supply Chain Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 866

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Yanfeng Liu

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Graduate School of Management of Technology, Pukyong National University, Busan 48547, Republic of Korea
Interests: international logistics; supply chain risk management; consumption economies
Dr. Xue Li

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Department of International Business & Trade, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea
Interests: maritime logistics; digital logistics; worker well-being
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Dear Colleagues,

Operation and supply chain risk management is a critical field that addresses disruptions, uncertainties, and vulnerabilities within complex global supply chains. The integration of optimization and decision analytics, maritime and digital logistics, logistics risk management, and information systems has become essential for mitigating risks and enhancing resilience. With the increasing complexity of global trade networks, sustainable production and consumption, platform-based market design, and demand analytics play pivotal roles in shaping effective risk management strategies. As supply chains become more interconnected, leveraging advanced analytics, AI-driven optimization, and cyber-physical systems provides new opportunities for improving agility and responsiveness. This Special Issue emphasizes systematic and interdisciplinary approaches to tackling modern supply chain risks, focusing on systematic approaches to operational and supply chain risk management. We welcome original research that advances theoretical, methodological, and empirical insights into modern risk management challenges in supply chain and logistics systems.

Dr. Yanfeng Liu
Dr. Xue Li
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • operation management
  • optimization and decision analytics supply chain risk management
  • maritime logistics
  • digital logistics
  • logistics risk management
  • information systems
  • sustainable production and consumption
  • market design, platform, and demand analytics behavioral economics and decision analysis
  • innovation and technology management

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Supply Chain Risk Management in the Hygiene and Personal Care Products Industry
by Ciro Rodrigues dos Santos, Ualison Rébula de Oliveira and Vicente Aprigliano
Systems 2025, 13(10), 871; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems13100871 (registering DOI) - 4 Oct 2025
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The Personal Care Products (PCP) industry, encompassing cosmetics, hygiene, and personal care items, serves millions of consumers daily and operates under constant pressure for innovation, agility, and sustainability. Within this context, supply chains are viewed as complex and integrated systems, composed of interrelated [...] Read more.
The Personal Care Products (PCP) industry, encompassing cosmetics, hygiene, and personal care items, serves millions of consumers daily and operates under constant pressure for innovation, agility, and sustainability. Within this context, supply chains are viewed as complex and integrated systems, composed of interrelated elements whose interactions determine overall performance and are influenced by external factors. Disruptions—particularly those involving indirect suppliers—can propagate throughout the network, affecting operations, reputation, and business outcomes. Despite the importance of the topic, empirical studies that systematically identify and prioritize these risks in the PCP sector remain scarce, which motivated the conduct of this study. Thus, the aim of this research is to identify, analyze, and evaluate the main supply risks faced by the PCP industry, considering severity, occurrence, and detection capability. Methodologically, the research employed an exploratory multi-case design, carried out in three steps: a literature review to identify key supply chain risks; structured interviews with industry experts to analyze and evaluate these risks; and the application of Gray Relational Analysis (GRA) to aggregate expert judgments and construct a prioritized risk ranking. This combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques provided a detailed foundation for analyzing and interpreting the main risks in the Brazilian PCP sector. The results indicate that indirect supplier failure is the most critical risk, prioritized by 70% of the companies studied. Other significant risks include the inability to meet changes in demand, import issues, lack of supply chain visibility, natural and social disasters, and sustainability or reputational concerns. Consequently, this study contributes to a systemic understanding of risk management in the PCP industry supply chain, providing managers with a practical mapping of critical points and highlighting concrete opportunities to strengthen integration, anticipate disruptions, and enhance operational resilience and performance across the sector. Full article
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Patent Licensing Strategy for Supply Chain Reshaping Under Sudden Disruptive Events
by Jianxin Zhu, Xinying Wang, Nengmin Zeng and Huijian Zhong
Systems 2025, 13(8), 672; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems13080672 - 7 Aug 2025
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Supply chains are increasingly exposed to sudden disruptive events (SDEs) such as natural disasters and trade wars. We develop a multi-stage game-theoretical model to investigate a novel coping mechanism: when a firm is forced to exit the market because of SDEs, the firm [...] Read more.
Supply chains are increasingly exposed to sudden disruptive events (SDEs) such as natural disasters and trade wars. We develop a multi-stage game-theoretical model to investigate a novel coping mechanism: when a firm is forced to exit the market because of SDEs, the firm can regain profits by licensing its proprietary production tech to a competitor. We find that, compared with the scenario before SDEs, such events can even increase the profit of each manufacturer under certain conditions. Under certain conditions, the cooperative strategy (i.e., supply chain reshaping) yields a higher supply chain system profit than the non-cooperative strategy. After SDEs, the common manufacturer may either accept or reject cooperation, depending on the customer transfer rate and the cooperation cost. Notably, under the cooperation strategy, the high-tech manufacturer extracts part of the common manufacturer’s profit through patent licensing, and the existence of cooperation cost further contributes to a misalignment between the common manufacturer’s optimal decision and the supply chain system optimum. These findings contribute to the literature by identifying a novel supply chain reshaping mechanism driven by patent licensing and offer strategic guidance for firms and policymakers navigating SDE-induced market exits. Full article
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