3 Tips for Adapting Your Research to COVID‐19 Supply Chain Disruptions

PurposeThis research aims to understand how competencies for supply chain professionals are developed and how they can affect the manager's performance, especially the manager's resilience in times of significant supply chain disruptions.Design/methodology/approachA research model was developed based on a comprehensive literature survey in the area of individual competencies grounded in the knowledge-based view of the firm. We tested our research model using a quantitative, survey-based study with a sample of 175 Pakistani supply chain managers. The hypotheses were tested using structural equation modelling (SEM).FindingsThe analysis identified corporate training and knowledge sharing as the main antecedents of supply chain professional's competencies. It also showed that these competencies result in higher performance in the form manager's resilience and job performance.Research limitations/implicationsThis study provides a valuable framework for organisations to focus on skill-developing training and promoting a knowledge-sharing culture among employees to achieve desired performance levels.Originality/valueThis study is unique as no prior research studied such a comprehensive model of antecedents and consequences of supply chain professionals' competencies.

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Supply Chain Disruptions and Best-Practice Mitigation Strategies

Supply Chain Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2625-6.ch049 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 831-844

Author(s):

Adenike Aderonke Moradeyo

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Best Practice ◽

Supply And Demand ◽

Mitigation Strategies ◽

Supply Chain Disruptions ◽

Chain Management ◽

Best Practice Guidelines ◽

Supply Chain Relationships ◽

Fortune 1000

This paper reviews the supply chain management literature to summarize best-practice guidelines for mitigating supply problems. Very few studies in the extant literature focused on matching a strategy for both the supply and demand perspective. Case studies of supply chain management have traditionally focused on single companies, and especially on successful organizations rather than on the demand-supply-chain relationships (which involve at least two companies). Therefore, this study considers the experiences of the author, and researchers several well-known profitable fortune 1000 supply chain companies, to determine which supply chain mitigation strategies work best in complex situations.

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Quantitative Risk Management Models for Newsvendor Supply Chains

Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science - Supply Chain Optimization, Design, and Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-633-9.ch007 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 155-170

Author(s):

Dimitrios Vlachos

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chains ◽

Stochastic Environment ◽

Supply Chain Disruptions ◽

Supply Chain Networks ◽

Starting Point ◽

The Impact ◽

A Company

As the practices of offshoring and outsourcing force the supply chain networks to keep on expanding geographically in the globalised environment, the logistics processes are becoming more exposed to risk and disruptions. Thus, modern supply chains seem to be more vulnerable than ever. It is clear that efficient logistics risk and security management emerges as an issue of pivotal importance in such competitive, demanding and stochastic environment and is thus vital for the viability and profitability of a company. In this context, this chapter focuses on a set of stochastic quantitative models that study the impact of one or more supply chain disruptions on optimal determination of single period inventory control policies. The purpose of this research is to provide a critical review of state-of-the-art methodologies to be used as a starting point for further research efforts.

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