The Overall Cumulative Impact of Covid-19 and Brexit on European Supply Chains

ABSTRACT

Supply chains are usually perceived as a stable environment where only local or regionalised disruptions may happen, thus this paper focuses on the unpreceded situation where cumulative impact of Brexit, Covid-19, and Suez Canal blockage on supply chains. Each event has been analysed from different angles to provide a wider view and depiction of complexity of modern supply chains as well as their vulnerability when it comes to cumulative impacts of major disruptions. © 2021 IEEE.