The purpose of the bibliometric analysis was to identify the most influential authors, organizations, and countries aiming to address the SC operational challenges due to various disruptions. Indeed, hundreds of articles were published on the aspects of SC management and potential impacts associated with the COVID-19 spread, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, , ].Ī number of previously conducted survey studies presented bibliometric and network analyses focusing on the literature related to SC management under disruptions, including the ones caused by the COVID-19 (Montoya-Torres et al.
These catastrophic issues prompted researchers worldwide to study the SC disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic more closely and develop mitigation and adaptation strategies.
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The unexpected changes in supply and demand plus border closures created significant SC disruptions across the world. People start to buy and store products that have never been held, e.g., food and toilet paper. Billions of people were asked to stay at home, resulting in substantial purchase paradigm changes. In the meantime, multiple lockdowns resulted in panic-buying and significant demand fluctuations. Moreover, the automobile part supply disruption affected the European car supply as well. In the US, the demand for automobiles plunged, resulting in an 80% drop in China's automobile part export. In Europe, some countries faced severe food supply shortages due to border closures from or to the food supplier countries like France. Many countries impose border closures which lead to disrupted SCs across the world, mainly when there is a fear of transmitting the virus by food. Some governments set rather radical control measures, e.g., border closures and lockdowns, resulting in significant supply chain (SC) disruptions. Different public health strategies have been imposed by the relevant officials to prevent the virus spread, including social distancing, requirements on wearing masks and face coverings, transition to remote operations, temporary closure of certain businesses (e.g., shopping malls, restaurants, entertainment facilities), restrictions on public gatherings, deployment of contact tracing measures, and others. The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is viewed as significant across the globe. In addition, we draw some managerial insights to ensure a resilient and sustainable supply of critical products in the event of a pandemic, such as personal protective equipment (PPE) and vaccines.
Various disruption management strategies focusing on resilience and sustainability themes are extracted from the most influential studies that were identified as a part of this work. Furthermore, the major research themes are found to be food, health-related SCs, and technology-aided tools (e.g., artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), and blockchains). The conducted analyses reveal that resilience and sustainability are the primary SC topics. In order to address this drawback, this study presents a set of up-to-date bibliometric, network, and thematic analyses to identify the influential contributors, main research streams, and disruption management strategies related to the SC performance under the COVID-19 settings. However, there is still a lack of systematic literature survey studies that aim to identify promising SC disruption management strategies through the bibliometric, network, and thematic analyses. The catastrophic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted scholars to develop innovative SC disruption management strategies and disseminate them via numerous scientific articles. There is an urgent need to respond to this grand challenge. All around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic affects different dimensions of SCs, including but not limited to finance, lead time, demand changes, and production performance. The COVID-19 pandemic has made a significant impact on various supply chains (SCs).
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