Bio-inspired Design for Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains Conference Paper

abstract

• Supply chain design has traditionally focused on using the shortest path or the minimum number of paths to reduce operational costs. This approach, however, fails to account for a system's response to external disruptions. A novel supply chain design is proposed that mimics the optimal balance of efficient and redundant pathways found in nature's resilient ecosystems. A comparison of traditional and bio-inspired supply chain designs are done using a disruption scenario, showing that the bio-inspiration significantly reduces the supply chain's vulnerability to cascading failures.

name of conference

• 27th CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference (LCE2020)Advancing Life Cycle Engineering : from technological eco-efficiency to technology that supports a world that meets the development goals and the absolute sustainability

authors

• Layton, Astrid

published proceedings

• Procedia CIRP

author list (cited authors)

• Chatterjee, A., & Layton, A.

citation count

• 6

complete list of authors

• Chatterjee, Abheek||Layton, Astrid

publication date

• January 2020

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Procedia CIRP  Journal

keywords

• 12 Responsible Consumption And Production

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.procir.2020.01.127

start page

• 695

end page

• 699

volume

• 90

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.01.127

user-defined tag

• 12 Responsible Consumption and Production