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Resilience Strategies for Post-COVID-19 Supply Chains

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 19788

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Prof. Dr. GuoJun Ji

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Management Science Department, Management School, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
Interests: supply chain management; logistics engineering; high education management
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Dear Colleagues,

Since the first cases were reported in December 2019, the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has swept across the globe, which has had a large impact on all industries. Among them, global supply chains (GSCs) are facing demand–supply disruptions all across the world. Global and local economies are severely affected by coronavirus outbreaks and thus supply availability has been reduced and misbalanced, with a rising demand for essential goods. Although many studies have been published to explore this, the resilience of supply chains during COVID-19 remains unclear.

This work aims to explore and evaluate the factors significant for enhancing the resilience of supply chains during COVID-19. At present, how to restore the resilience of supply chains is urgent. Building resilience in post-COVID-19 supply chains, including in the risk management of post-COVID-19 supply chains; disruption risk management in post-COVID-19 supply chains; the resilience of chain operations in post-COVID-19 supply chains; robustness in post-COVID-19 supply chains; corporate social responsibility in post-COVID-19 supply chains; global logistics operations in post-COVID-19 supply chains; emergency management in post-COVID-19 supply chains, etc.

Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer review procedure and will be published in an open access format in Sustainability with the aim of the rapid and wide dissemination of research results.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. GuoJun Ji
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • post-COVID-19 supply chain
  • supply chain management
  • emergency management in the supply chain
  • logistics engineering
  • resilience strategies

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The Impacts of Government Subsidies and Consumer Preferences on Food Supply Chain Traceability under Different Power Structures
by Weixia Xue and Zhiduan Xu
Sustainability 2023, 15(1), 470; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010470 - 27 Dec 2022
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After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the sustainability of the food supply chain (FSC) was greatly challenged. Enterprises and governments have taken various measures to enhance the resilience of the FSC and to achieve sustainable development. Product traceability systems are an important [...] Read more.
After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the sustainability of the food supply chain (FSC) was greatly challenged. Enterprises and governments have taken various measures to enhance the resilience of the FSC and to achieve sustainable development. Product traceability systems are an important tool for improving the resilience of the FSC and for dealing with its risks. In this study, we developed a two-stage supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and a retailer to investigate how government subsidies, power structures, and consumer preferences affect the decisions involved with FSC traceability. Manufacturer–Stackelberg (MS) and retailer–Stackelberg (RS) power structures—with and without government subsidies—were constructed using game theory, and the equilibrium solutions of the four models were compared and analyzed. The research shows that (i) government subsidies have a positive effect on FSC traceability investments, benefiting both the manufacturer and the retailer; (ii) a retailer-dominated supply chain is more conducive to product traceability, which will benefit the retailer, and when the consumer traceability preference reaches a certain threshold, the manufacturer will also benefit; and (iii) government subsidies have a significant incentivizing effect on retailer-dominated supply chain traceability. Finally, we provide an example to analyze and compare the differences between decision-making processes and profits under various consumer preference scenarios. In conclusion, the government should provide subsidies, and the retailer needs to dominate the supply chain and improve consumer traceability preferences. The research in this paper provides insight into the implementation of traceability in the FSC for management. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resilience Strategies for Post-COVID-19 Supply Chains)
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Optimal Return Freight Insurance Policies in a Competitive Environment
by Xiang Li, Shu Zhou, Guojun Ji and Weina Shi
Sustainability 2022, 14(18), 11748; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811748 - 19 Sep 2022
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In recent years, return freight insurance (RFI) has emerged as a solution to the problem of returns of goods purchased online. However, although RFI reduces the return costs of both parties and increases the purchase intention of consumers, it also increases the rate [...] Read more.
In recent years, return freight insurance (RFI) has emerged as a solution to the problem of returns of goods purchased online. However, although RFI reduces the return costs of both parties and increases the purchase intention of consumers, it also increases the rate of returns and reduces retailers’ profits. Therefore, some online retailers have looked at increasing their service effort as a means of improving the service level and reducing the rate of returns. Considering the impact of retailers’ service efforts on consumer returns, the retailers’ choice of RFI strategy is very important for its profit. It is worth studying how retailers choose RFI policies and the pricing and service effort level in different market environments. In this study, we examine the retailers’ RFI decision-making process, including the influence of retail service effort on consumer returns, by developing three duopolistic-competition game models based on three RFI markets. In this case, we analyze and compare the retailers’ optimal pricing decisions, optimal service effort decisions, and optimal profits in each RFI market, and identify the relationship between the retailers’ optimal decisions and the degree of competition. The result shows that under the market where RFI is provided by the retailer, the retailers’ optimal pricing and optimal service effort level both increase with the increase of market competition. In addition, retailers should consider the impact of market competition and return compensation on consumer demand when making the decision of whether to offer freight insurance. Full article
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Supply Chain Diversification, Digital Transformation, and Supply Chain Resilience: Configuration Analysis Based on fsQCA
by Weili Yin and Wenxue Ran
Sustainability 2022, 14(13), 7690; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14137690 - 23 Jun 2022
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To determine the influence of COVID-19 on supply chains, previous research has examined the impact of supply chain diversification and digital transformation on supply chain resilience, but few studies have integrated these two aspects to understand their impact on supply chain resilience. Given [...] Read more.
To determine the influence of COVID-19 on supply chains, previous research has examined the impact of supply chain diversification and digital transformation on supply chain resilience, but few studies have integrated these two aspects to understand their impact on supply chain resilience. Given this, our study implements the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method to investigate the influence of supply chain diversification (supply base diversification and customer base diversification) and digital transformation (digital transformation depth and breadth) on supply chain resilience. Using data from 191 listed manufacturing firms, it is shown that the dimensions of supply chain diversification and digital transformation do not have the necessary conditions to achieve high supply chain resilience, while the analysis of sufficient conditions shows that three paths can achieve high supply chain resilience—namely, those driven by digital transformation, supply chain diversification, and supplier centralization and customer base diversification. This study demonstrates the numerous and complex linkages between antecedent and outcome, and firms can choose the path that is best for them to improve supply chain resilience based on their size, degree of digital transformation, and supply chain diversification. Full article
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Mapping the Field of Value Chain: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis
by Siyuan Wang and Zhouyang Gu
Sustainability 2022, 14(12), 7063; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127063 - 9 Jun 2022
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In recent years, the interest in academic research in the field of the value chain has increased rapidly. However, there is a lack of bibliometric and visualization research on this subject. This paper aims to analyze the main trends of the value chain [...] Read more.
In recent years, the interest in academic research in the field of the value chain has increased rapidly. However, there is a lack of bibliometric and visualization research on this subject. This paper aims to analyze the main trends of the value chain in multidomain-related literature in the past decade. Thus, we used bibliometric 2002 documents data from the Scopus to generate figures like the trend, co-occurrence and proportion of the value chain by using Rstudio and VOSviewer. The results not only explained the main modern trends under the time series, but also showed the evolution of the development of the theme of the value chain. Additionally, the paper also determines the impact of the value chain in different journals and documents and analyzes the impact of themes, countries and keywords on the publication of the value chain literature. After identifying the most popular themes and keywords in the past decade, we predicted the trend and direction of future value chain research. Due to the lack of literature for data analysis on value-chain-related innovation, this study is a unique contribution to the literature on the measurement method as a supplement. This study also provides a visual and schematic framework for the relevant research in the field of the value chain and summarizes the trend and trajectory. This may help researchers understand the current trend of the research on the value chain and grasp the future research direction. Full article
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