Decision-Making Models for Healthcare Supply Chain Disruptions: Review and Insights for Post-pandemic Era

The black swan event caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has majorly exposed the vulnerabilities of the supply chain of many of the firms. However, healthcare sector is one of the significant areas which majorly got disrupted during this pandemic event. The majority of the studies focus on the reviews on supply chain disruption modelling to analyse the risk and their effect on supply chains. This study provides a systemic literature review of various supply chain disruption models in the healthcare sector, analyses them based on different parameters identified from the literature. Some of our key findings include (1) analysis of quantitative and analytical modelling approaches used for dealing with disruption in healthcare sector; (2) managerial implications that derive potential future research avenues and insights for practitioners in the domain of healthcare supply chain disruption in post-pandemic era to improve international competitiveness and operational excellence.