Supply Chain Practice Towards Resilience: A Study on the Bangladeshi Manufacturing Industry During COVID-19

Supply Chain Practice Towards Resilience: A Study on the Bangladeshi Manufacturing Industry During COVID-19

Ferdoush Saleheen, Md Mamun Habib
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9506-0.ch005
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Abstract

The global pandemic outbreak has been affecting an enormous impact on people's lives and societies. It is evident that crafting the supply chain procedures and results based upon cost-competitiveness are no longer adequate and businesses will be required to reconsider approaches that hold “risk-competitiveness” to warrant resilience moving forward. In this context, the Bangladesh supply chain industry is no exception. The supply chain practitioners have faced an unprecedented challenge from the supplier timely shipment failure to a long delay in the voyage, congestion at transshipment and at the customs, delay in the clearance procedure, and finally, difficulties in the distribution. This chapter justifies the current global disruption demands to revalidate the supply chain performance measurement (SCPM) of an organization, and the Bangladeshi supply chain needs to become more agile and adaptable to these acute crisis moments and should emphasize building effective response strategies.
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Background

Without any dispute, all supply chain practitioners admit: between the pandemic, shortage of containers, prolonged winter, the blockage of the Suez Canal by a container ship, frequent logistics miseries, things have been extremely challenging for the professionals to grip the operations under control.

These disturbances have already led to the current global shortage of raw & packaging materials, petrochemicals, bulk chemicals, basic suppliers, emergency medical equipment. The consequences of these limitations on the supplies lead to production at a halt, price inflation, and production. The impact has been multiform and across all industries both backward and forward. The raw materials made from these are used for food packaging, medical supplies, household appliances (Theodossiou et al., 2020; Altay & Green, 2006; McKibbin & Fernando, 2020; Altay et al., 2018; Bevilacqua et al., 2017; Carlsson-Szlezak et al., 2020).

The summary of the critical challenges faced due to COVID 19 during and post pandemics are as follows:

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    Global supply crisis at production site due to shortage of labor

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    Container constraints to ship goods at buyers and customer premises

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    Shortage of staff due to quarantines and medical safety and/or lower supply.

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    Restrictions on transport and distribution operations to deliver goods or services.

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    Under-staffed, under-supplied, and store closures. Lack of consumers.

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    Unavailability of transport operation crews and lack of demand for certain goods

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    Challenges to reach consumers for delivery restrictions.

The impacts are resulted due to the above challenges as follows:

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    Production shortage, unfulfilled customer orders, and spike of inventory

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    Uncertainty of raw material and other input arrivals for production.

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    Slow shipments and inconsistent delivery.

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    Frequent delivery schedule failure.

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    Fewer products on the shelves, diminished ability to serve the customers.

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    Delivery is inconsistent, a model for timing is faulty, and increased costs

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    Avoid shipping, delayed delivery timeline, and more volatile demand patterns.

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