Irene Falvo
Covid-19 impact on supply chains: Resilient vs. efficient supply chain, re-shoring strategies, suppliers selection.
Rel. Carlo Rafele. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Gestionale (Engineering And Management), 2021
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Covid-19 pandemic challenges all the area of living of people in the last year, supply chains were not excluded by it. Restriction measures, global health concerns and drastic-unreasonable demand changes were the main issues supply chains had and still have to face in the most globalized world ever seen. The aim of this work is to understand how the pandemic impacted in the supply chains, the first reactions of companies to minimize the disruption of the production, logistic and supply shock and finally the measures to take in order to prevent future problems. The question of the thesis is, in fact: how do supply chain reacted to pandemic and what can they do to be more resilient? To answer the question, in the first chapter is shown the chronological development of the pandemic, starting from China’s outbreak and its expansion in the rest of the world, keeping in mind the economical context in which the event takes place.
In the second chapter is first presented literature about natural disaster, since it is the most similar event to a pandemic in terms of effects
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