A Review of Supply Chain Management Practices: The Case of Botswana State-Owned Enterprises (SOE)

COVID-19 has created many economic disruptions in the way a supply chain (SCs) is being managed. The rapid spread of the contagion has impacted tremendously the meat processing, food service and poultry SCs. Botswana being an underdeveloped country adopted supply chain management best practices to stay afloat during the pandemic. The lessons learned from Botswana can be used in developing countries to highlight the needed essential SCs elements during a pandemic. Botswana strong competitive advantages during crisis appears to be: service, operations, inbound and outbound logistics. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.