The Performance of Resilient Supply Chain Sustainability in Covid-19 by Sourcing Technological Integration

Abstract

The present study describes technological integration as source of the sustainable supply chain resilience. The implementation of sustainable supply chain resilience has recently played a vital role, owing to its substantial factors which influence the business continuity. The influence of sustainable supply chain resilience is greatly varying, to embrace companies’ efficiency during a crisis such as COVID-19. In the present study, systematic model-based integration of sustainable supply chain resilience is developed, which can benefit the companies’ profile of work normalcy during the pandemic situation by managing the associated risks. Different variable factors are considered, to assess their impact on the sustainable supply chain. These factors are environmental regulatory system, customer response monitoring system, environmental uncertainty, interoperability and operational integration. Data were collected by questionnaire and analyzed with statistical tools of interpretation. This research is concluded with the assessment that there is a significant correlation between technological integration and the resilient supply chain’s sustainability. The business organizations need to understand the current COVID-19 situation, the supply chain issues, and their impact on the other factors. Business organizations need to implement international quality standards through the use of technology. This study highlights the critical components of technological advancement, which can uplift the existing standards. Overall, the study portrays the recent sustainable supply chain resilience-based orientation to cope with the current pandemic situation.

Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Food Supply Chains

“…Food supply chains are very vulnerable and complex supply chains by nature [10]. For this reason, the sustainability of the food supply chain in the face of disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic is under threat [11]. Sustainability of food supply chains depend on ensuring sustainability at every stage, which are production, processing, distribution, retail and consumer of the supply chain [12].…”

“…Moreover, traceability in food supply chains helps to prevent losses in the production process and supports increased sustainability in food supply chain [15]. Especially in uncertain times such as the COVID-19 pandemic, tracing production process provides to increase responsiveness of food supply chains from the beginning section of the supply chain [11,16]. Furthermore, food safety and security are an important sustainability factors based on stages of sustainable food supply chains [14].…”

“…In addition, there are many problems such as the uncertainties in the current situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, difficulty in accessing raw materials in food supply chains [8], loss of cooperation between suppliers, communication problems experienced in the processes i.e., [10]. This uncertain time threatens the sustainable food supply chain [11]. Hence, it is critical to achieve sustainable food supply chains [12].…”

“…Hence, it is critical to achieve sustainable food supply chains [12]. Furthermore, increasing the resilience of food supply chains, especially in times of uncertainty, depends on its sustainability [11] and the resilience and sustainability are related terms with each other for food supply chain [10].…”

Sustainability in Numbers by Data Analytics

“…These include the following: SDGs; Paris Agreement and nationally determined contributions; circular economy and minimizing circularity gap as well as related terms such as closing the waste loop, end-of-life management of waste, ban on single-use plastics, ban on export of solid waste, design out waste, emissions reduction targets, recycling targets, etc. [15][16][17][18][19][20][21]; sustainability gap [2]; energy efficiency and more renewable energy in the energy mix [22][23][24]; water efficiency [25,26]; materials efficiency [27,28]; supply chain resilience and efficiency [29][30][31][32][33][34][35]; decarbonization efforts including low-carbon economy, carbon trading, low-carbon materials, low-carbon products, low-carbon services, green economy, carbon footprint reporting carbon tax [36][37][38][39]; green financing and related terminologies such as extended produced responsibility (EPR), environmental product declarations (EPD), energy efficiency targets, eco-design, eco-labeling, Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) reporting, and packaging agreement [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]; lifecycle assessment and related terms such as lifecycle costing and lifecycle engineering [48][49][50][51]; renewable and sustainable materials; electronic waste (E-waste); design for recyclin...…”