Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing: Volume 16 Issue 2

Guest editorial: Impact of COVID-19 on strategic sourcing decisions and business performance

Surajit Bag, Peter Kilbourn, Lincoln C. Wood, Mihalis Giannakis

Mapping the key challenges and managing the opportunities in supply chain distribution during COVID-19: a case of Myanmar pharmaceutical company

Vimal Kumar, Kyaw Zay Ya, Kuei-Kuei Lai

This study aims to present a study on the supply chain process of a Myanmar-based pharmaceutical company (named ABC Pvt. Ltd. in this study) that produces pharmaceutical products…

Post-COVID-19 strategic sourcing decisions for escorting stakeholders’ expectations and supplier performance in construction project works

Atul Kumar Sahu, Prabhu M., K.T. Vigneswara Rao

The occurrence of COVID-19 has impacted the wide-reaching dimensions of manufacturing, materials, procurement, management, etc., and has loaded disruptions in the wide range of…

Optimizing firm's supply chain resilience in data-driven business environment

Mohammad Osman Gani, Takahashi Yoshi, Muhammad Sabbir Rahman

This study aims to investigate the impact of a firm’s supply chain capabilities on supply chain resilience, and the impact of supply chain resilience on sustainable supply chain…

COVID-19 turbulence and positive shifts in online purchasing by consumers: modeling the enablers using ISM-MICMAC analysis

Meenakshi Sharma, Rupesh Kumar, Pradeep Chauhan

Suppliers and marketers have started planning toward postpandemic scenarios where logistics and retail will happen in a new way with the help of technological advances. This shift…

Crowdsourced product returns in C2B e-commerce: a post-pandemic no-contact consumer incentive-based model

Chitresh Kumar, Anirban Ganguly

This study aims to investigate the conditions for the financial feasibility of an incentive-based model for self-drop or crowdsourced drop of the product to be returned at…

Supply chain integration and firm performance in the COVID-19 era: the mediating role of resilience and robustness

Rosa Hendijani, Mahdis Norouzi

In recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the most impactful disruptions which has imposed high levels of uncertainty on supply chains around the world. Supply…

Purchasing challenges in times of COVID-19: resilience practices to mitigate disruptions in the health-care supply chain

Renato Araujo, June Marques Fernandes, Luciana Paula Reis, Martin Beaulieu

This study aims to identify supply chain (SC) management practices applied to purchasing capable of improving the resilience of the health-care SC and mitigating the effects of…

Procurement system for resilient supply chain amid the COVID-19 pandemic: systematic literature review

Veer Shivajee, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Sanjay Rastogi

This study aims to provide a rich learning opportunity from COVID-19 crisis for making resilient supply chain by adopting new strategies for the procurement system.

An integrated Industry 4.0-Sustainable Lean Six Sigma framework to improve supply chain performance: a decision support study from COVID-19 lessons

Jaypalsinh Ambalal Rana, Suketu Y. Jani

The COVID-19 pandemic era has severely hampered the economy over the globe. However, the manufacturing organizations across all the countries have struggled heavily, as they were…

Improving supplier performance and strategic sourcing decisions by integrating jobshop scheduling, inventory management and agile new product development

Anil Kumar K.R., J. Edwin Raja Dhas

The purpose of this study is to improve supplier performance and strategic sourcing decisions by integrating jobshop scheduling, inventory management and agile new product…

Exploring the application of analytics in supply chain during COVID-19 pandemic: a review and future research agenda

Santosh Kumar Shrivastav

This study aims to comprehend the application of analytics in the supply chain during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and identify the emerging themes.

Towards measuring SMEs performance amid the COVID-19 outbreak: exploring the impact of integrated supply chain drivers

Fadi Abdelfattah, Mustafa Malik, Abrar Mohammed Al Alawi, Ramzi Sallem, Anirban Ganguly

This study aims to explore supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic in the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in Oman. This study analyzes the impact on…

The production and distribution of face masks to other countries: a strategic approach of Taiwan during COVID-19 outbreak

Vimal Kumar, Ha Thi The Nguyen, Ankesh Mittal, Kuei-Kuei Lai

COVID-19 pandemic has exposed that even the best of the developed nations have surrendered to the devastations imposed on the global supply chains. The purpose of this study is to…

Supply chain management practices, retail outlets attributes and organisational performance: a case of organised food retailers in India

Anil Kumar, Rohit Kumar Singh

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of supply chain management (SCM) practices and retail outlet attributes on the performance of organised food retailers in India…