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The study of supply chains and the manufacture of finished goods is one of the main topics related to the impacts of globalization. In the context of Latin American and Caribbean regions, it is essential to understand the supply chain impacts on sustainability and its resilience to exceptional events. The COVID-19 pandemic culminated in supply crises worldwide, including medicines and hospital supplies. This problem embodies the need to identify and implement alternatives that allow for cost reduction and efficiency while maintaining a solid and sustainable supply chain of this supply. This chapter elucidates the factors that influence the sustainability and resilience of supply chains by modeling the chain as a graph or network. The model allows the network visualization and the generation and analysis of complex network metrics. Graph characterization uses these metrics and provides attributes for resilience and sustainability analysis. Considering the health crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemics, the case study was selected based on the production chain of one of the leading manufacturers and distributors of essential medicines of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) Fiocruz/Farmanguinhos laboratory. After presenting the proposed methodology to approach the problem and practical application in the case study, the benefits of modeling via graphs and complex systems are discussed, ranging from greater visibility of chain flows, better comparison between different configurations of supply chains, in addition to greater autonomy for decision-making by industrial managers.
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This research is part of the INCT of the Future Internet for Smart Cities funded by CNPq proc. 465446/2014-0, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001, FAPESP proc. 14/50937-1, and FAPESP proc. 15/24485-9.
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Gonçalves de Misquita e Silva, G., Stringhini, D. (2023). Analysis of Supply Chain Sustainability and Resilience. In: Aguilar-Rivera, N., Borsari, B., R. B. de Brito, P., Andrade Guerra, B. (eds) SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region. Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16017-2_68
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