How do you prepare a supply chain for a crisis, and how do you manage a supply chain when the unexpected hits you? While not providing a direct answer to this question, a group of researchers from the Texas A&M University, has scoured some 118 peer-reviewed and published articles and come up a classification scheme I think is excellent. In Managing supply chains in times of crisis: a review of literature and insights, the three, Arunachalam Narayanan, Ismail Capar and Malini Natarajarathinam use 5 factors and 15 subfactors to separate the chaff from the wheat.

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