IMPACT OF COVID-19 OUTBREAK ON DISRUPTED SUPPLY CHAIN

A CRITICAL REVIEW OF CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

Abstract

The outbreak of coronavirus has not only taken the lives of people and caused long-term health issues, but it has influenced the supply chain of service and production sectors. Not only the production, but also the related purchasing and distribution processes are influenced by the pandemic situation and new challenges have to be taken into consideration. To overcome these challenges, new strategies, policies, methods, algorithms, decision making tools were developed and used. Within the frame of this article, the authors analyse the available literature sources to identify the tendencies in the supply chain solutions during pandemic and to find the potential theoretical and practical solution to overcome challenges in disrupted supply chain. In the first part of the article, the descriptive analyses focus on the identification of research subject and scientific fields, while in the second part, the content analysis discusses the most important contributions of research works regarding problems and solutions in disrupted supply chain in manufacturing. The consequences of this literature review show that a wide range of new policies, strategies and methodologies were developed and applied to avoid first mile, production and last mile problems to fulfil the decreased customers’ demands.