Economic simulation of a poultry supply chain facing a sanitary crisis

Thi Le Hoa Vo (1) , Daniel Thiel (2)

1 CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management
2 CEPN - Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord

The purpose of this paper is to study the behaviour of a food supply chain possessing two originalities, i.e. a singular structure (40-day upstream push and 24-hour downstream pull) and one that suffers from simultaneous fluctuations in raw material supply capacities (due to epizooty) and customer demand (due to customer anxieties and fears) caused by a sanitary crisis.

Mots clés: Avian influenza; economic performance; food supply chain management; sanitary crisis; simulation; system dynamics

Domaines: Gestion et management

Thi Le Hoa Vo, Daniel Thiel. Economic simulation of a poultry supply chain facing a sanitary crisis. British Food Journal, 2011, 113 (8), pp.1011-1030. ⟨10.1108/00070701111153760⟩. ⟨halshs-00657468⟩