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. 2021 Feb 13;148:102271. doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2021.102271

Table 5.

List of impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on supply chains.

Impacted area Specific impact References
Demand management Demand spikes for essential products Govindan et al., 2020, Gunessee and Subramanian, 2020, Hakovirta and Denuwara, 2020, Handfield et al., 2020, Hobbs, 2020, Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020a, Iyengar et al., 2020, Jabbour et al., 2020; Ketchen and Craighead, 2020, Leite et al., 2020, Mehrotra et al., 2020, Mollenkopf et al., 2020, Nikolopoulos et al., 2020, Okorie et al., 2020, Paul and Chowdhury, 2020a, Paul and Chowdhury, 2020b, Queiroz et al., 2020, Sharma et al., 2020a, Trautrims et al., 2020, van Hoek, 2020, Yuen et al., 2020, Zhu et al., 2020
Shortage of essential products Deaton and Deaton, 2020, Farias and Araújo, 2020, Hobbs, 2020, Jabbour et al., 2020; Kumar et al., 2020, Larrañeta et al., 2020, Mollenkopf et al., 2020, Paul and Chowdhury, 2020a, Queiroz et al., 2020, Rowan and Laffey, 2020, Sharma et al., 2020a, Shokrani et al., 2020, Siche, 2020, van Barneveld et al., 2020, Zhu and Krikke, 2020
Loss of security with respect to essential items Cappelli and Cini, 2020, Reardon et al., 2020, Siche, 2020
Failure of on-time delivery Ivanov and Das (2020)
Declining demand for non-essential products Abhishek et al., 2020, Chiaramonti and Maniatis, 2020, Derevyankina and Yankovskaya, 2020, Gurbuz and Ozkan, 2020, Handfield et al., 2020, Ibn-Mohammed et al., 2021, Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020a, Majumdar et al., 2020, Nikolopoulos et al., 2020
Ambiguity or difficulty in forecasting Gunessee and Subramanian (2020)
Supply management Shortage of material supply/supply-side shock/supply disruption Baveja et al., 2020, Gunessee and Subramanian, 2020, Gupta et al., 2020, Handfield et al., 2020, Hobbs, 2020, Ishida, 2020, Ivanov and Das, 2020, Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020a, Iyengar et al., 2020, Leite et al., 2020, Lozano-Diez et al., 2020, Nikolopoulos et al., 2020, Paul and Chowdhury, 2020a, Paul and Chowdhury, 2020b, Singh et al., 2020, van Hoek, 2020, Xu et al., 2020a, Zhu et al., 2020
Production management Production disruption and backlog Ivanov and Das, 2020, Iyengar et al., 2020, Lozano-Diez et al., 2020, Mehrotra et al., 2020, Paul and Chowdhury, 2020a, Quayson et al., 2020, Richards and Rickard, 2020, Shokrani et al., 2020
Reduced production capacity Leite et al., 2020, Paul and Chowdhury, 2020b
Unavailability of workforce Gunessee and Subramanian, 2020, Kumar et al., 2020, Leite et al., 2020, Mollenkopf et al., 2020, Trautrims et al., 2020, Xu et al., 2020a
Obsolescence and impairment of machinery and capital assets Dente and Hashimoto, 2020, Derevyankina and Yankovskaya, 2020
Transportation and logistics management Delays in transportation and distribution Chiaramonti and Maniatis, 2020, Deaton and Deaton, 2020, Gray, 2020, Kumar et al., 2020, Xu et al., 2020a
Lack of international transportation/trade Deaton and Deaton, 2020, Handfield et al., 2020, Ibn-Mohammed et al., 2021, Xu et al., 2020a
Loss/lack of physical distribution channels Choi, 2020a, Dente and Hashimoto, 2020, Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020a, Ketchen and Craighead, 2020, Mollenkopf et al., 2020, Richards and Rickard, 2020
Shift of distribution and logistics pattern (offline to online or blended) Mollenkopf et al. (2020)
Relationship management Reduced social interaction Baveja et al., 2020, Kumar et al., 2020
Information ambiguity Gunessee and Subramanian (2020)
Lack of supplier engagement/opportunistic behavior van Hoek (2020)
Supply chain-wide impact (causing impacts in internal, upstream and downstream operations) Ripple effect on all the operations involved in supply chains Gunessee and Subramanian, 2020, Ivanov, 2020a, Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020a, Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020b, Queiroz et al., 2020, Yuen et al., 2020
Supply chain collapse Handfield et al., 2020, Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020b, Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020c, Shokrani et al., 2020, Siche, 2020, Yuen et al., 2020
Closure of facilities, including both companies’ production facilities and the facilities of supply chain partners such as suppliers and distributors Ishida, 2020, Quayson et al., 2020, Xu et al., 2020a, Yu and Aviso, 2020
Financial management Reduced supply chain financial performance (e.g. loss/reduction of financial stability) Baveja et al., 2020, Chiaramonti and Maniatis, 2020, Deaton and Deaton, 2020, Derevyankina and Yankovskaya, 2020, Guan et al., 2020, Hakovirta and Denuwara, 2020, Ivanov, 2020a, Ivanov and Das, 2020
Reduced cash inflow Hakovirta and Denuwara (2020)
Sustainability management Lack of focus on social and environmental sustainability practices/disruption of sustainability initiatives Majumdar et al., 2020, Sharma et al., 2020a, van Barneveld et al., 2020
Threats to the health and safety of the workforce Gunessee and Subramanian, 2020, Hakovirta and Denuwara, 2020, Mollenkopf et al., 2020, Rizou et al., 2020, Trautrims et al., 2020, van Barneveld et al., 2020
Contraction of the development of green and low-carbon energy sources Hosseini (2020)
Increase in waste Dente and Hashimoto, 2020, Derevyankina and Yankovskaya, 2020, Farias and Araújo, 2020, Sharma et al., 2020b, Trautrims et al., 2020
Increased in recyclable materials Rahman et al. (2021)