Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Risk Assessment in the Time of COVID 19/Case Study

As of March11, 2020 the world Health Organization (WHO) declared Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a pandemic. The disastrous outbreak of Covid-19 is described as humanity’s worst crisis since World War II. Effectively, not only has it caused severe disruptions around the world at different levels–social, economic, political-but it has also acutely disrupted supply chains worldwide. Pharmaceutical supply chain is a significant component of the health system as to supplying medicines. Today, pharmaceutical companies face a tremendous array of risks. The purpose of this research is to assess different risks in Tunisian pharmaceutical supply chain during this challenging period due to COVID-19 pandemic by providing quantified empirical results. Based on the review of literature, some major risks affecting the pharmaceutical supply chain are identified as regulatory risk, inventory risk, counterfeit risk and financial risk. The fuzzy AHP method is used, in this work, in order to identify the most important risk. It has to be noted that the top risk identified in pharmaceutical supply chain is that related to the Supply and suppliers. © 2021, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.