Supply Chain Management: Volume 26 Issue 6

Guest editorial

Liz Breen, Claire Hannibal

The role of digital technologies in supply chain resilience for emerging markets’ automotive sector

Balakrishnan A.S., Usha Ramanathan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of digital supply chain (DSC) technologies in automotive supply chain resilience (SCR) practices to improve the supply chain…

Supply chain resilience during pandemic disruption: evidence from healthcare

Barbara Scala, Claire Frances Lindsay

This paper aims to explore how resilience is evident in healthcare supply chains in the public sector when faced with pandemic disruption and to identify any learnings to inform…

Towards more balanced sourcing strategies – are supply chain risks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic driving reshoring considerations?

Remko van Hoek, David Dobrzykowski

Reshoring is one of the supply chain risk management techniques suggested in literature. However, literature suggests that the decision-making involved in reshoring is complex and…

COVID-19 and the pursuit of supply chain resilience: reactions and “lessons learned” from logistics service providers (LSPs)

David M. Herold, Katarzyna Nowicka, Aneta Pluta-Zaremba, Sebastian Kummer

The purpose of this paper is to provide new insights into the reactions and lessons learned with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of how logistics service providers (LSPs…

Supply chain sustainability learning: the COVID-19 impact on emerging economy suppliers

Michele Morais Oliveira Pereira, Minelle E. Silva, Linda C. Hendry

This paper aims to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on supply chain (SC) sustainability learning. In particular, it focuses on the learning associated with changes…

Supply chain agility responding to unprecedented changes: empirical evidence from the UK food supply chain during COVID-19 crisis

Quynh Nhu Do, Nishikant Mishra, Nur Baiti Ingga Wulandhari, Amar Ramudhin, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Gavin Milligan

The COVID-19 outbreak has imposed extensive shocks embracing all stages of the food supply chain (FSC). Although the magnitude is still unfolding, the FSC responds with remarkable…

The power of purpose – lessons in agility from the Ventilator Challenge

Andrew Fearne, Beverly Wagner, Natalie McDougall, David Loseby

COVID-19 has shaken views of what is normal and what is possible, raising questions about conventional norms, ways of working and our understanding of agility. This paper aims to…

Covid-19 response of an additive manufacturing cluster in Australia

Tillmann Boehme, James Aitken, Neil Turner, Robert Handfield

The sudden arrival of Covid-19 severely disrupted the supply chain of personal protective equipment (PPE) in Australia. This paper aims to examine the development of a…