A production recovery plan in manufacturing supply chains for a high-demand item during COVID-19

By Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Priyabrata Chowdhury. International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 2020

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PurposeA recent global pandemic, known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), affects the manufacturing supply chains most significantly. This effect becomes more challenging for the manufacturers of high-demand and most essential items, such as toilet paper and hand sanitizer. In a pandemic situation, the demand of the essential products increases expressively; on the other hand, the supply of the raw materials decreases considerably with a constraint of production capacity. These dual disruptions impact the production process suddenly, and the process can collapse without immediate and necessary actions. To minimize the impacts of these dual disruptions, we aim to develop a recovery model for making a decision on the revised production plan.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the authors use a mathematical modeling approach to develop a production recovery model for a high-demand and essential item during the COVID-19. The authors also analyze the properties of the recovery plan, and optimize the recovery plan to maximize the profit in the recovery window.FindingsThe authors analyze the results using a numerical example. The result shows that the developed recovery model is capable of revising the production plan in the situations of both demand and supply disruptions, and improves the profit for the manufacturers. The authors also discuss the managerial implications, including the roles of digital technologies in the recovery process.Originality/valueThis model, which is a novel contribution to the literature, will help decision-makers of high-demand and essential items to make an accurate and prompt decision in designing the revised production plan to recover during a pandemic, like COVID-19.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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The Industry 5.0 framework: viability-based integration of the resilience, sustainability, and human-centricity perspectives (2022, background): “In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, firms with a digital supply chain and visibility were able to map the available supply and re-allocate it to demand (Ardolino et al. 2022, Choi 2021, Paul and Chowdhury 2021, Rozhkov et al. 2022).”
Impact of Internal Integration, Supply Chain Partnership, Supply Chain Agility, and Supply Chain Resilience on Sustainable Advantage (2021, background): “The imbalance between downstream (demand) and upstream (supply) affects the planning and production recovery plan model [7].”
Ripple effect in the supply chain network: Forward and backward disruption propagation, network health and firm vulnerability (2020, neutral): “…COVID-19 andemic, the global supply chains face both supply shortage and emand shrink which might lead to simultaneous or sequential orward and backward propagations of disruptions ( Ivanov & Dolui, 2020a ; Queiroz, Ivanov, Dolgui & Fosso Wamba, 2020 ; Ivanov Das, 2020 ; Paul & Chowdhury, 2020 ).”
A case study on strategies to deal with the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the food and beverage industry (2020, background): “Moreover, given that the impacts of the pandemic vary across industries (Paul & Chowdhury 2020b), future studies could explore industry-wise impacts to explore how COVID-19 pandemic has impacted each industry.”
COVID-19 pandemic related supply chain studies: A systematic review (2021, neutral): “…topic becoming more and more important for researchers, it is worth reporting the current state of the literature and outlining future research opportunities at this early stage—in part, to help scholars avoid doing repetitive research in this area (Chowdhury and Paul, 2020; Iyengar et al., 2020).”
Supply Chain Viability and the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual and formal generalisation of four major adaptation strategies (2021, background): “Looking at the surges in demand, Paul and Chowdhury (2020b) similarly developed a production recovery model that could be utilised to revise production plans for a high-demand essential item during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Impacts of COVID-19 on Global Supply Chains: Facts and Perspectives (2020, background): “On the other hand, it is also important to propose and verify the alternativematerials and to source local substitutes [68].”