Disasters. The result: Damaged infrastructure. End result: Disrupted supply chains. But how do disasters really impact supply chains? What is the supply chain risk of disasters? While the damage done by windstorms and floods may be different from that of an earthquake, do they also impact supply chains differently, and does it even differ by industry or sector? Is it different upstream or downstream the supply chain? According to what Nesih Altay and Andres Ramirez wrote in their very recent article Impact of disasters on firms in different sectors: Implications for supply chains, the kind of disaster and the place a company has in the supply chain matters considerably. Interestingly, so they say, upstream partners enjoy a positive impact, while downstream partners have to plan for the opposite.

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