Managing the Risks in the Clothing Supply Chain Considering the Coronavirus Pandemic

Abstract

This paper examines the systemic and complex influences of the 2020 Coronavirus epidemic on the supply chains (SCs) of international clothing companies through a global business risk management perspective. The Coronavirus pandemic has triggered supply and demand disturbance risks that strongly affect supply chain (SC) management, signifying a necessity to develop the agility to alleviate such risks. This study revealed that the lean-SC management model is inadequate due to the dearth of transparency in the SCs caused by the growing demand uncertainty detected even before the Coronavirus pandemic. Although agile-SC management copes with this issue by improving the purchaser-supplier relations and communication to enhance information exchange, this model also requires a related rise in business stock and inventory costs. Hence, the paper provides several strategies that companies can implement to manage the risks and identify main fields for future studies, including the parties in the clothing SCs both downstream and upstream.

COVID-19, Supply Chain, and Profitability: A Survey Based on an Emerging Economy

“…Malsinghe et al, (2022) also concentrates on operational excellence models to overcome the challenges during the pandemic. Additionally, several risk management tactics should be in place to combat the pandemic like reliable sourcing, safeguarding, partnership with major supplier, and real demand-based inventory management (Sumarliah et al, 2021). Furthermore, getting adapted to the pandemic will enable any company to deal with any crisis in the future.…”

“…can assist the firms to collaborate, communicate and plan for the contingencies. Batwa and Norrman (2021) have emphasized on trust while applying blockchain in supply chain management. The linkage of DCP pyramid with 4IR technologies can be the optimum solution to handle the pandemic.…”

Evaluation of competition strategies applied in logistics management during the pandemic process: A research on logistics companies in Istanbul

“…How has the competitive strategy you implemented after the pandemic, especially in storage, distribution, and inventory management, affected your costs? (Sumarliah, et al, 2021) 4. What competitive strategies do you apply to increase your market share in electronic commerce?…”

Covid-19-Driven Societal Sustainability in the Apparel Supply Chain: Insight From Muslim-Majority Countries

“…Scholars have examined the risk management of ASC in the COVID-19 time such as changing the lean SC, in which employee engagement is maintained, to agile system where the usage of e-commerce and modern technologies like blockchain is focused (Sumarliah et al, 2021a;2021e). Blockchain is believed to improve SC transparency and thereby SC performance ); e-commerce usage in the ASC grows rapidly during and post-COVID-19 as many people work from home due to the pandemic (Sumarliah et al, 2022c).…”

“…For the past twenty years, academicians address numerous risk management practices in SCs, such as risk detection, evaluation, alleviation, and supervising. Scholars suggest that developing SC resilience is effective in managing SC risks (Sumarliah et al, 2021a;2021e;Sturm et al, 2021). Besides, SC performance can be improved by SC practice (Usmanova et al, 2021) and SC orientation (Usmanova et al, 2022a;.…”