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578 gap statements mined from Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 2,743 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • Process iteration, high costs, and lack of expertise. Insufficient top management awareness and commitment. Limited resources, particularly for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.

    An Approach to Business Continuity Self-Assessment · 2025 · DOI

  • The complexity of supply chain operations and the need for real-time monitoring and predictive analysis. The need to integrate digital twins with emerging technologies such as IoT, AI and blockchain. The challenge of maintaining supply chain resilience and sustainability in the face of disruptions and challenges.

    State of the Art of Digital Twins in Improving Supply Chain Resilience · 2025 · DOI

  • The lack of transparency, efficiency, and security in emergency supply chains. The need for a methodology that can enhance the resilience of supply chains in emergency situations. The potential of blockchain technology to mitigate inefficiencies and fraud in supply chains during crises.

    Emergency Supply Chain Resilience Enhanced Through Blockchain and Digital Twin Technology · 2025 · DOI

  • The study highlights the need to navigate uncertainty and create sustainable competitive advantage in the hotel industry. The study recognizes the challenge of integrating AI capabilities into supply chain resilience and agility frameworks.

    Artificial Intelligence-Driven Supply Chain Agility and Resilience: Pathways to Competitive Advantage in the Hotel Industry · 2025 · DOI

  • The complexity of supply chain systems and the need for more adaptive and responsive methods. The challenge of integrating multiple disciplines and perspectives in the study of supply chain resilience. The difficulty of developing practical and applicable models of the Bullwhip and Ripple effects in supply chain resilience.

    The Bullwhip Effect and Ripple Effect with Respect to Supply Chain Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities · 2025 · DOI

  • The paper identifies the challenge of designing a resilient and sustainable citrus supply chain that can withstand disruptions while maintaining profitability. It highlights the need to balance the costs of resilience strategies with product availability to effectively mitigate disruptions.

    Optimizing Resilient Sustainable Citrus Supply Chain Design · 2025 · DOI

  • The need to address the bullwhip effect in supply chains is also identified as a challenge.

    Cognitive Supply Chain Management and Risk Management in Pharmaceuticals: The Mediating Roles of Forecasting, Synchronization, and Transparency · 2025 · DOI

  • Longitudinal research designs should be considered in future CSCM research to identify how CSCM capabilities evolve over time, thereby impacting SCRM. Future research may incorporate industry-specific constraints such as regulatory compliance, approval timelines, and strict storage requirements as moderating variables to provide a more comprehensive understanding of their effects on SCRM.

    Cognitive Supply Chain Management and Risk Management in Pharmaceuticals: The Mediating Roles of Forecasting, Synchronization, and Transparency · 2025 · DOI

  • There is a need to develop methods that can handle confounding variables and non-parametric data. The study also highlights the challenge of analyzing the effect of social sustainability on supply chain resilience in different contexts and time periods.

    Effect of Social Sustainability on Supply Chain Resilience Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico: A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling and Evolutionary Fuzzy Knowledge Transfer Approach · 2025 · DOI

  • The gap is related to the lack of effective supply chain management and the need for stakeholder resilience and adaptability.

    Resilience and Adaptability in Paracetamol Supply Chains: A Systems Perspective on COVID-19 Challenges and Responses in Ethiopia · 2025 · DOI

  • The need to develop hybrid models that combine simulations, optimization, and artificial intelligence algorithms. The challenge of evaluating the performance of the proposed model using metrics such as AUC.

    Dynamical System Modeling for Disruption in Supply Chain and Its Detection Using a Data-Driven Deep Learning-Based Architecture · 2025 · DOI

  • The analysis of disruptions in supply chains is complex and requires a hybrid approach. Prior literature has identified a need for models that combine simulations, optimization, and artificial intelligence algorithms to maximize metrics such as service level, costs, and number of completed orders.

    Dynamical System Modeling for Disruption in Supply Chain and Its Detection Using a Data-Driven Deep Learning-Based Architecture · 2025 · DOI

  • Balancing the need for Personal Protective Equipment with the limited supply and production capacity.

    How COVID-19 Affected the Italian Personal Protective Equipment Supply Chain: An Empirical Analysis · 2025 · DOI

  • There is a need to understand the impact of SHRM practices on organizational resilience. The study identifies a gap in the literature regarding the mediating effects of organizational culture on the relationship between SHRM practices and resilience. The research aims to address the lack of understanding of how SHRM practices and organizational culture contribute to organizational resilience.

    Enhancing Organizational Resilience: The Transformative Influence of Strategic Human Resource Management Practices and Organizational Culture · 2024 · DOI

  • The study highlights the need to consider the nuances of supply chain complexity in moderating the effectiveness of green innovation strategies. The study notes the limitations of the PROCESS method, including the assumption of linear relationships and the potential for multicollinearity.

    The Path from Green Innovation to Supply Chain Resilience: Do Structural and Dynamic Supply Chain Complexity Matter? · 2024 · DOI

  • Designing a complete citrus supply chain, from farm to retailer, which includes the production of citrus fruit and juice and deals with citrus waste simultaneously.

    Optimizing Resilient Sustainable Citrus Supply Chain Design · 2025 · DOI

  • The required horizon is short, as horizons longer than needed bring no further gain - A longer horizon also enlarges the state space, which can make the policy harder to learn - The net effect of H is therefore an empirical…

    From Reactive Response to Proactive Mitigation: The Value of Precursor Risk Signals in DRL Inventory Control · 2026 · DOI

  • Investigating the effect of different predictive horizons on the policy's performance - Examining the impact of signal quality on the policy's ability to detect disruptions - Studying the application of the risk sensing DRL framework to other…

    From Reactive Response to Proactive Mitigation: The Value of Precursor Risk Signals in DRL Inventory Control · 2026 · DOI

  • Development of an architecture to enhance supply chain management in future emergencies. Application of the proposed methodology to other types of emergency supply chains. Investigation of the impact of blockchain technology on supply chain resilience in different scenarios.

    Emergency Supply Chain Resilience Enhanced Through Blockchain and Digital Twin Technology · 2025 · DOI

  • Limited practical application of the research, - Research often neglects the connection between the Bullwhip and Ripple effects and resilience, - The study only reviews literature…

    The Bullwhip Effect and Ripple Effect with Respect to Supply Chain Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities · 2025 · DOI

  • Examinations of how material management strategies aimed at reducing inventory can impact situations involving unanticipated increases in demand, - Studies focusing on the global Personal Protective Equipment supply chain, - Analysis of the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Personal Protective Equipment supply…

    How COVID-19 Affected the Italian Personal Protective Equipment Supply Chain: An Empirical Analysis · 2025 · DOI

  • Further investigation into the relationship between supply chain dynamism and supply chain resilience, - Examination of additional determinants within the chain…

    The Relationship between Supply Chain Resilience and Digital Supply Chain and the Impact on Sustainability: Supply Chain Dynamism as a Moderator · 2024 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in understanding the interplay between supply chain resilience, digital supply chain, and sustainability - The research aims to address the gap by examining the moderating influence of supply chain dynamism - The study seeks to provide practical recommendations to foster a more resilient and technologically empowered supply…

    The Relationship between Supply Chain Resilience and Digital Supply Chain and the Impact on Sustainability: Supply Chain Dynamism as a Moderator · 2024 · DOI

  • Further research could investigate the impact of green innovation strategies on supply chain resilience in different industries, - Future studies could explore the role of other factors, such as technological advancements, in enhancing supply chain resilience, - Research could also examine the effectiveness of different green logistics management practices in improving supply chain…

    The Path from Green Innovation to Supply Chain Resilience: Do Structural and Dynamic Supply Chain Complexity Matter? · 2024 · DOI

  • Common method bias has been identified as a potential issue in quantitative research - The sample size was limited to 221 employees - The study only considered manufacturing firms in Saudi…

    The Influence of Strategic Human Resource Management and Artificial Intelligence in Determining Supply Chain Agility and Supply Chain Resilience · 2024 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) The lack of transparency, efficiency, and security in emergency supply chains (“Emergency Supply Chain Resilience Enhanced Through Blockchain and Digital Twin…”, 2025); (2) Future research may incorporate industry-specific constraints such as regulatory compliance, approval timelines, and strict storage requirements as moderating variables to provide a more comprehensive understanding of their effects on SCRM (“Cognitive Supply Chain Management and Risk Management in Pharmaceuticals: The…”, 2025); (3) There is a need to develop methods that can handle confounding variables and non-parametric data (“Effect of Social Sustainability on Supply Chain Resilience Before, During, and…”, 2025); (4) The gap is related to the lack of effective supply chain management and the need for stakeholder resilience and adaptability (“Resilience and Adaptability in Paracetamol Supply Chains: A Systems Perspective…”, 2025); (5) There is a need to understand the impact of SHRM practices on organizational resilience (“Enhancing Organizational Resilience: The Transformative Influence of Strategic…”, 2024). 578 gap statements have been mined from Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 2,743 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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