Supply Chain REconfiguraBility for glObal cRises resilieNce – SC-Reborn
Supply Chain REconfiguraBility for glObal cRises resilieNce
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Challenges and objectives
The COVID-19 crisis has severely disrupted global supply chains, causing industrial interruptions and slowdowns that will have lasting effects. Companies have generally used “continuity plans” through overstocking or overproduction, but the crisis has shown that “cessation/switching plans” are necessary to maintain resilience, defined as the supply chain’s ability to adapt and recover its initial performance in the face of unforeseen events. The crisis has revealed that disruptions originate from very early levels of the chain, with unpredictable propagation. The SC-Reborn project aims to develop a methodology for reconfiguring supply chains to make them more resilient in times of crisis, building on lessons learned from COVID-19. The project has three main objectives: 1) Develop a methodology for piloting the reconfiguration of a logistics network in times of crisis, ensuring nominal resilience. 2) Develop a use case based on the supply of health personal protective equipment (PPE), drawing on feedback from the pandemic and discussions with stakeholders (public health organizations, manufacturers). 3) Create a collaborative web portal to share data, reports and studies, accessible to all entities in the supply chain.
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From the perspective of assessing the resilience of a supply chain (SC), it is crucial to define the resilience indicator in a recombination dynamic facing hypothetical scenarios, supported by various feedbacks. It is interesting to examine the impact of the degrees of freedom of reconfiguration of a RL on the resilience of the SC in the medium and long term. These degrees of freedom are not limited to the flexibility to change suppliers or customers, but also include the capacity of a node to change activity. For example, a food manufacturing unit could produce protective glasses for the health sector, at a given time, cost or productivity. An expected result is that participants on the SC-Reborn portal can deposit their reconfiguration models of their own RL, allowing to reconstruct and evaluate the reconfigurability and resilience of a SC in the face of various disruptions. The SC-Reborn portal, developed during the project, aims to perpetuate contributions and use cases, enabling a comprehensive study and providing recommendations on managing the risks of major discontinuities or crises in the SC.
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The project aims to develop a methodology for the resilient control of supply chains in times of global crisis such as the Covid19 crisis . These are crises where supply discontinuities are long in time and widespread, so that even an adaptation of activities and the transition to a degraded mode of industrial and service players cannot avoid serious public health and economic consequences. The challenge is to demonstrate how the "reconfigurability" of the supply chain can be a lever for action to achieve sufficient resilience of the industries and services (particularly health) fabric. The subject is important because no way to have reconfigurable systems without reconfigurable supply chains. Il is difficult because predictive tools and remedial cause solutions for rare events where feedback and statistical risk management techniques are no longer valid. Three research fields will be deployed: Artificial Intelligence, Discret Event Systems and Supply Chain Risk Management.
Project coordination
Sid-Ali Addouche (Laboratoire QUARTZ EA7393)
The author of this summary is the project coordinator, who is responsible for the content of this summary. The ANR declines any responsibility as for its contents.
Partnership
QUARTZ Laboratoire QUARTZ EA7393
LGP LABORATOIRE GENIE DE PRODUCTION
LURPA Laboratoire Universitaire de Recherche en Production Automatisée
Help of the ANR 321,550 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project:
January 2022
- 42 Months
