Supply Chain Resilience and Inventory Management Strategies in a Pandemic

Strategic sourcing: How COVID-19 is reshaping supply chains (increase inventory, dual sourcing, reshoring or nearshoring instead of offshoring, regionalization)

Dual sourcing game: Reducing mismatch costs

Did the pandemic kill Just-in-Time (JIT)? Aligning the interests of manufacturers and public health: JIT vs. JIC (Just-in-Case)

Pandemic influenza case

Bespoke supply chain resilience: Insights and opportunities for enhancing supply chain resilience

Reasons for mismatches of supply and demand in a pandemic: Demand shift, supply reduction, coordination failure

Actions to increase supply chain resilience

Risk sharing to align the inherent conflict of interests between profit-oriented companies (manufacturers) and public health sector (government)

Class attendance is compulsory, one-time excuses are accepted

Presentation of instructor

Discussion of case studies

Experiment (dual sourcing)

Student presentations

Assignments: Individual as well as group

Written short test: Strategic sourcing, dual sourcing (45 minutes, 25 points)

Group presentation: Pandemic influenza case (20 minutes, 40 points)

Individual report on supply chain resilience (short paper of 5-6 pages, 25 points)

Active class participation (10 points)

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