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Covid-19 attacks the body of purchasing and supply management: A medical check of the immune system
Much like the immune system of the body, the ‘immune system’ of purchasing and supply management (PSM) is also affected by the Covid-19 virus. Medicine must hinder the spread of the virus and outbreak of disease, just as PSM must prevent risk events and handle supply disruptions. The existing debate...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8449339/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2021.100716 |
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author | Glas, Andreas H. Meyer, Matthias M. Eßig, Michael |
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description | Much like the immune system of the body, the ‘immune system’ of purchasing and supply management (PSM) is also affected by the Covid-19 virus. Medicine must hinder the spread of the virus and outbreak of disease, just as PSM must prevent risk events and handle supply disruptions. The existing debate on supply resilience and robustness can be demonstrated using this medical analogy. The purpose of this article was to perform a medical check of the ‘PSM immune system’ to identify lessons and research gaps when confronted with a low-frequency-high-impact event such as the pandemic. As a provocative note, this article identifies research gaps in elements of the immune system of PSM (e.g., helper cells – consultancy support or memory cells – feedback loops). The results call for a more holistic debate on the immune system of PSM. Two approaches for research on ‘conventional’ or ‘alternative’ risk management schools of thought are presented as a basis for future discourse on how to improve the PSM immune system. |
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spelling | pubmed-84493392021-09-20 Covid-19 attacks the body of purchasing and supply management: A medical check of the immune system Glas, Andreas H. Meyer, Matthias M. Eßig, Michael Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management Article Much like the immune system of the body, the ‘immune system’ of purchasing and supply management (PSM) is also affected by the Covid-19 virus. Medicine must hinder the spread of the virus and outbreak of disease, just as PSM must prevent risk events and handle supply disruptions. The existing debate on supply resilience and robustness can be demonstrated using this medical analogy. The purpose of this article was to perform a medical check of the ‘PSM immune system’ to identify lessons and research gaps when confronted with a low-frequency-high-impact event such as the pandemic. As a provocative note, this article identifies research gaps in elements of the immune system of PSM (e.g., helper cells – consultancy support or memory cells – feedback loops). The results call for a more holistic debate on the immune system of PSM. Two approaches for research on ‘conventional’ or ‘alternative’ risk management schools of thought are presented as a basis for future discourse on how to improve the PSM immune system. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-10 2021-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8449339/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2021.100716 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Glas, Andreas H. Meyer, Matthias M. Eßig, Michael Covid-19 attacks the body of purchasing and supply management: A medical check of the immune system |
title | Covid-19 attacks the body of purchasing and supply management: A medical check of the immune system |
title_full | Covid-19 attacks the body of purchasing and supply management: A medical check of the immune system |
title_fullStr | Covid-19 attacks the body of purchasing and supply management: A medical check of the immune system |
title_full_unstemmed | Covid-19 attacks the body of purchasing and supply management: A medical check of the immune system |
title_short | Covid-19 attacks the body of purchasing and supply management: A medical check of the immune system |
title_sort | covid-19 attacks the body of purchasing and supply management: a medical check of the immune system |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8449339/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2021.100716 |
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