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Strategies for Managing the Impacts of Disruptions During COVID-19: an Example of Toilet Paper

verfasst von: Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Priyabrata Chowdhury

Erschienen in: Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management | Ausgabe 3/2020

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Due to the recent pandemic of coronavirus, known as the COVID-19 outbreak, the supply chains have been impacted most significantly. Manufacturers of certain items have experienced a substantial increase in demand, and on the other hand, raw materials supply, to produce those items, has reduced because of supply failure. To overcome these challenges, this paper proposes some strategies to improve service level during an extraordinary pandemic outbreak, such as COVID-19, for the most wanted products such as toilet paper. This study considers meeting the increased demand of the customers for an essential product of daily life like toilet paper during a pandemic is beyond the traditional economic objective, i.e., increase profit, of the manufacturers. Instead, this should be more about the social responsibility of all the manufactures to ensure that they can serve more customers. Motivated by this and taking toilet paper as an example of the product, we first analyzed the current scenario of the manufacturing and the demand for the product and then proposed some strategies to deal with this unprecedented risk and analyzed the results. We have compared the results, using hypothetical data, between the current scenario and proposed strategies. The result shows that sharing information and resources from all manufacturers to produce under a single brand, emergency sourcing, producing basic quality items, and packing in the smallest sizes have a significant positive impact on the service level. This paper first investigates the strategies for a high-demand and essential item during a pandemic situation and proposes strategies to deal with this unique, extraordinary disruption.

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Titel: Strategies for Managing the Impacts of Disruptions During COVID-19: an Example of Toilet Paper
verfasst von: Sanjoy Kumar Paul
Priyabrata Chowdhury
Publikationsdatum: 12.07.2020
Verlag: Springer India
Erschienen in: Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management / Ausgabe 3/2020
Print ISSN: 0972-2696
Elektronische ISSN: 0974-0198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40171-020-00248-4

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