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@article{188563,
        author = {ASHUTOSH SHUKLA},
        title = {Supply Chain Resilience after Global Crisis: The Paradigm Shift to Viability, Digitalization, and Strategic Redundancy},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {2732-2742},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=188563},
        abstract = {The global crises of the early 2020s, including the COVID 19 pandemic, escalating geopolitical conflicts, and intensified climate events, revealed fundamental vulnerabilities in globally optimized supply chain architectures. Strategies prioritizing cost efficiency, lean inventories, and Just in Time (JIT) methodologies proved incapable of withstanding systemic, multi directional shocks, necessitating a paradigm shift towards Supply Chain Resilience (SCR) and long term viability. This paper presents a systematic analysis of the evolution of SCR frameworks, highlighting the transition from reactive risk mitigation to proactive, viability focused design. Key structural findings mandate strategic redundancy through network redesign specifically regionalization, reshoring, and mandatory multi sourcing and the deployment of operational buffers, shifting from JIT to optimized Just in Case (JIC) inventory. Crucially, the analysis identifies technological acceleration as a critical resilience multiplier, emphasizing the role of Digital Twins for real time risk simulation and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) for predictive forecasting. The report explores the core paradoxical tension between cost efficiency and resilience, advocating for rigorous quantitative models (e.g., Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) and Integrated Performance Loss) to justify the return on investment for redundancy and ensure persistent, viable supply chain performance.},
        keywords = {},
        month = {December},
        }