Disturbance Management Strategy in the Food Supply Chain in The Middle of Pandemic COVID-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic raises problems for the industry on a large scale. Among them, the food supply chain has experienced disruption due to government policies such as the closure of several road accesses and WFH activities as a form of handling COVID-19. This paper aims to analyze disruption and find coping strategies in food supply chain activities. By using the SWOT analysis method. Based on the IFAS-EFAS calculation, it is known that several disturbances that occur in the food supply chain, such as limited transportation access, inadequate production, a decline in value inventory turnover and needs space increased. The output of this research is a coping strategy, namely online marketing and maintaining the stability of food commodity prices, providing innovative rules regarding agricultural land, maintaining product quality and efficient use, increasing the scale of production and distribution as needed, and creating farmer empowerment programs.

Assessment of the Real and Potential Risks Faced by the Retail Sector During the COVID-19 Pandemic—By Following the Corporate Dynamics of Carrefour and 7-Eleven

“…During the pandemic, the retail industry's greatest challenge is the congestion of cash and goods turnover (Nasution et al, 2020). There will be issues with the product supply of agricultural and ancillary partners upstream.…”

Causal Impacts of Epidemics and Pandemics on Food Supply Chains: A Systematic Review

“…Logistics and infrastructure impacts are also highly cited (e.g., [58,[63][64][65][66][67]). Disruption in transportation, for example, can be traced back to the unavailability of labor, since laborers often need to stay at home and are unavailable to carry out their activities due to social distancing policies or infected workers [45,68,69].…”

“…Production volume changes (production rate) or stopping production (stoppage of production) [7,10,12,38,48,56,63,66,70,72,74,75,79,80,87,100,106,108,110,113,114,129,131,134,137,142,152,162,[169][170][171][172][173][174] Stability and business continuity plans…”

“…Fluctuation in supply and demand [5,7,8,14,25,28,29,[36][37][38][39]41,[46][47][48]50,54,57,60,63,64,74,76,[78][79][80][81]84,92,93,[100][101][102][105][106][107][108]111,114,118,123,125,131,132,137,139,142,144,146,149,155,159,…”

“…Constraints on storage space capacity [14,29,36,63,108,109,170] Workforce adjustment Relocating healthy staff from closed plants [170] Restructuring plans Better warehousing infrastructure [109] Policy support for infrastructure development [105] Market support measures [111] Increasing hours of operation [170] Upskilling staff [36] Strong focused country leadership [89] New operating procedures [67] Online infrastructures Focus on building online infrastructures [61] Government financial assistance for companies Short-term incentives for distributors [61] Supply-side; logistics and infrastructure; management and operation Relationships between stakeholders Information sharing between stakeholders [3] Communication technologies Information and communication availability [54] Improve communication skills [56] Cooperation and collaboration Sharing of data and information [110,132] Collaboration between stakeholders [132] Coordination, cooperation, and support among stakeholders [78] Government supported scaling up digital information sharing models [135] Supply-side; logistics and infrastructure; management and operation…”