The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $238,149 Federal Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Kansas State University (KSU) on February 1, 2025. The project, titled "EAGER: SUPPLYCHAINDCL: Exploring Collaborative Incentive Structures for Sharing Cost of Resilience in Supply Chains," aims to develop an innovative framework for strengthening the supply chain of critical minerals. The research will study strategies for companies in a distributed supply chain, using manganese as a test case, to form alliances and share the costs of ensuring continuity of product flow and decreasing single source dependencies. The project will create new models and utility functions to quantify the value, benefit, and cost associated with supply chain participants engaging in strategic cooperation, as well as mechanisms to control commodity price volatility. The results are expected to offer a blueprint for companies to form associations and alliances that encourage risk sharing and a fair way of allocating the cost of resilience among supply chain partners.
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