A General Supply Chain Continuity Management Framework

AbstractInnovation challenges for handling supply chain risks have become one of the most important drivers in business competitiveness and differentiation. Furthermore, supply chain risk evaluation is of a great importance in emerging areas such as biomanufacturing, nanotechnology, and energy. However, with the advent of globalization and the advance of new technologies, the global and lean supply chains are more than ever at risk. In this scenario, this paper has the purpose to develop a general supply chain business continuity framework, which is an extension of the model developed by [1]. The fact that this model has already been implemented in the pharmaceutical supply chain risks in business units of Iran [2], demonstrates the potential of its replication to different field of industry all over the world. In addition, this paper shows that this framework can be extended to the financial and marketing operational constructs