...Sunil Kumar C.V. Purpose Discount grocery stores (DGSs) are attractive food supply chain (FSC) channels because many cost-conscious Indians use them for monthly needs. Despite capacity, DGSs must address customer concerns about store crowd densities and improve their COVID-19 preparedness...

... manufacturing systems. In addition, the ranking of the proposed SMPMs shows a degree of relevance of the measures in smart manufacturing deployment and managing the disruptions caused due to the COVID-19 pandemic Research limitations/implications The findings benefit managers, consultants, policymakers...

... limitations/implications First, this study examined the effects of the relationships between supply chain parties and psychological factors on logistics outsourcing. Second, this study applied the investment model to a logistics outsourcing-related topic. Finally, under the COVID-19 and the trade war...

... the health-care SC during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Findings This article suggests five propositions of resilient practices that can increase purchasing resilience in the face of pandemics such as COVID-19. The proposed practices are collaboration, flexibility, visibility, agility...

...Chandrasekaran Nagarajan; Indira A.; Ramasubramaniam M. Purpose This study aims to analyse the structure of the Indian vaccine supply chain (SC) during the Covid-19 crisis and explore the underlying challenges at each stage in the network. It also brings out the difference in performance...

...Rosa Hendijani; Mahdis Norouzi Purpose In recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the most impactful disruptions which has imposed high levels of uncertainty on supply chains around the world. Supply chain integration (SCI) is highly recommended as an underlying mechanism that can...

... 05 2022 26 06 2022 03 08 2022 29 08 2022 05 09 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Supply chain MICMAC Online purchase COVID-19 Changing buying behavior Digitization-commerce ISM analysis...

...Santosh Kumar Shrivastav Purpose This study aims to comprehend the application of analytics in the supply chain during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and identify the emerging themes. Design/methodology/approach The author downloaded a list of research articles on the application of analytics...

...Veer Shivajee; Rajesh Kumar Singh; Sanjay Rastogi Purpose This study aims to provide a rich learning opportunity from COVID-19 crisis for making resilient supply chain by adopting new strategies for the procurement system. Design/methodology/approach The systematic literature review has been...

...Fadi Abdelfattah; Mustafa Malik; Abrar Mohammed Al Alawi; Ramzi Sallem; Anirban Ganguly Purpose This study aims to explore supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic in the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in Oman. This study analyzes the impact on selected supply chain drivers...

... and decision-makers need to make strategic decisions, as they did to overcome the challenges presented by COVID-19. Originality/value The study’s findings demonstrate that firms’ supply chain capabilities can be leveraged to increase supply chain resilience. Firms’ resilience during COVID-19 allowed them...

...Atul Kumar Sahu; Prabhu M.; K.T. Vigneswara Rao Purpose The occurrence of COVID-19 has impacted the wide-reaching dimensions of manufacturing, materials, procurement, management, etc., and has loaded disruptions in the wide range of supply chain (SC) activities. The impact of COVID-19 has twisted...

... care for Myanmar people’s health. The study aims to identify the key supply chain challenges and manage the opportunities executed by this pharmaceutical company to improve the supply chain process during the COVID-19 outbreak. Design/methodology/approach This work used a case study and conducted...

...Anil Kumar; Rohit Kumar Singh Purpose The aim of this study is to examine the impact of supply chain management (SCM) practices and retail outlet attributes on the performance of organised food retailers in India during COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Authors conducted empirical...

...Piyal Sarkar; Mohamed Wahab Mohamed Ismail; Timur Tkachev Purpose In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, all business sectors have critical needs. They face multiple challenges to restructuring their operations to build a resilient, cost-effective and sustainable supply chain. Therefore, this paper...

...Vinaytosh Mishra Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the applications of blockchain in vaccine passport solution. The world is facing an unprecedented situation because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries have witnessed sporadic lockdown and travel restrictions and it has...

...Naila Fares; Jaime Lloret Purpose Focussing on issues that have impacted textiles, clothing and fast fashion following the COVID-19 outbreak, this study aims to identify agility factors pertinent to retail maturity management, mainly on resilience. These factors were then assessed based...

...Sudhanshu Joshi; Manu Sharma Purpose This study aims to explore the critical factors for digital technologies (DT) adoption to develop a sustainable agri-food supply chain (AFSC). As the developing countries are struggling to survive during COVID-19, DT adoption in AFSC can bring resilience...

...Thomas Koerber; Holger Schiele Purpose This research aims to investigate the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic (C19, Corona) on trends of transcontinental sourcing as an extreme form of global sourcing. This study starts by observing that the sideward movement of international trade...

...Osama Fayez Atayah; Mohamed Mahjoub Dhiaf; Khakan Najaf; Guilherme Francisco Frederico Purpose This study aims to contribute to the extant literature on logistics by investigating the interrelationship between the financial performance of listed logistics firms and the COVID-19 and compare...