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Global disruption of supply chains caused by the Covid-19 pandemic had led to reassessment of how logistic functions are integrated into operations and management goals. This paper is based on semi-structured interviews of stakeholders engaged in freight transportation, carried out in the post-Covid period. It also includes a case study of a leading pharma company that illustrates how the top management has successfully dealt with today's disruption-prone business environment. This paper contends that Supply Chain Management (SCM) and distribution logistics are too critical to be relegated to the background even when an organisation chooses to outsource them. It highlights the ongoing debates on mitigative measures and recommends that corporate governance needs to accommodate logistics functions under its fold so as to establish a systemic approach to cope with future disruptions.
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Purpose>The importance of international dry port integration in the supply chain has received a great deal of attention and been widely discussed in the literature. This study empirically examines the relationship among dry port logistics supply chain integration (DPLSCI), its operational performance (OP) and dry port competitiveness (DPC) in the context of China.Design/methodology/approach>The authors developed a structured questionnaire based on the supply chain integration (SCI) theory and resource-based view, and collected data from the dry port operation enterprises and their stakeholders in central and western China. A structural equation model (SEM) is used to test the research hypotheses.Findings>The results demonstrate that DPLSCI has a positive effect on logistics cost performance (LCP) and service quality performance (SQP), which further improves DPC. Meanwhile, OP (LCP and SQP) is a full mediator between DPLSCI and DPC.Practical implications>This paper provides guidelines for dry port operators and their stakeholders to integrate supply chain resources and develop the OP for improving the overall competitiveness of an international dry port. The government could also invest in physical infrastructure and system platform to strengthen the OP of a dry port and further enhance its competitiveness.Originality/value>The authors emphasise that the international dry port is a proactive and integrated system in providing a supply chain logistics service. This study fills up a research gap in the extant literature on theoretically proposing and empirically testing a new theoretical model. It also contributes to dry port stakeholders by providing useful guidelines to enhance OP and dry port competitiveness.
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Global supply chains have reached critical capacity, resulting in escalating prices, long delivery times, and has had a crippling effect on manufacturing, health care, agriculture, and commerce in general. In addition, the cascading effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as other intra-supply chain problems have resulted in a 40-year high inflation and degradations in quality of life, employment, GNP, and personal and national security. During the pandemic, shortages in the workforce and all transportation carrier modes forced the acceleration of digitally powered solutions for capacity improvements. At the same time, emerging technologies in autonomy, electrification, fuel cells, and low carbon powerplants are pushing the envelope of OEM development for over-the-road trucks, aircraft, and maritime vessels. These new transportation modes offer clean, low noise, and high safety operations, which promise to move people and goods faster, cleaner, and ultimately more affordably between origin and destination. This paper provides an overview of general logistics issues that can assist VTOL designers and operators in determining critical configuration parameters, location demographics, flight operations, and emerging Aircraft On Ground (AOG) technologies to maximize near-term ROI for transformative VTOL aircraft. Copyright © 2022 by the Vertical Flight Society. All rights reserved
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The Covid-19 pandemic has produced another era on the planet while we sort out the outcomes in various parts of our everyday life. The food sector and food supply chain do not incorporate an exception. In Latvia, the agricultural and food sector is important for the national economy;therefore, it is important that production, processing, logistics, supply and trade disruptions are successfully overcome during the pandemic and the food sector develops rapidly after the crisis and is more resilient in the future. Therefore, the aim of the present research is to examine potential scenarios for overcoming the crisis in food supply chains with the aim of promoting sectoral development and resilience after Covid-19 crisis in Latvia. The research identified two key drivers of food supply chains during the crisis and post-crisis period: 1) market demand for a particular product;2) capability to ensure the production process is uninterrupted, with the availability and sufficiency of individuals/employees at all stages of the food supply chain. Any case of Covid-19 in a company could lead to production interruptions, thereby causing losses to the company and affecting the market situation. The research developed four scenarios for food supply chains for the crisis and post-crisis period, gave descriptions of the scenarios for key food sector segments and found that the scenarios and the resilience of the food sector during the post-crisis period were determined by the duration of the crisis. © 2021 International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference. All rights reserved.
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This article focuses on the deficiencies in the construction of emergency logistics and material guarantee systems that have been exposed during the prevention and control of the coronavirus epidemic. Establish an emergency logistics supply system to solve the current slow emergency response and other problems. Heavy. This paper takes the vehicle distribution problem as the background and uses the ant colony algorithm to solve the emergency logistics distribution vehicle scheduling model. On the basis of a time window, the transportation distance and cost of each node of the emergency system are considered to construct a model. According to the characteristics of the model, an ant colony algorithm solution method is designed, and an improved analysis is made for ant path selection. © 2021 IEEE.
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The current business environment seeks practice-oriented logistics solutions to sustain the pandemic situation. Increased capacity in the air freight supply chain and cargo freight operations will necessitate simplified methods to improve cargo handling efficiency. We have investigated the impact of covid 19 scenarios on global airfreight handling services. The findings of a simulation study done on a case of an Indian International Airport specialized cargo division are presented in this article. We addressed the influence of the COVID19 pandemic on supply chains by providing recent instances from one of India's biggest international airports in the eastern zone. Using anyLogistix simulation software, we demonstrate how simulation modeling rapidly and accurately simulates and evaluates supply chain interruptions. The findings of this study may help decision-makers predict operational and tactical risk mitigation methods, as well as the effects of pandemic disruptions. © 2021 IEEE.
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Cross-border e-commerce, as a new business model, has gradually replaced the traditional trade model. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies encountered bottlenecks, mainly because products could not adapt to the rapid changes in consumption and products were out of stock due to weak logistics system. Through our observation of the current marketing situation and problems, we analyze that sellers need to enhance their adaptability and risk resistance in the pandemic environment, especially in the face of the new trends in cross-border e-commerce. Based on this, we propose a strategic optimization plan, including product optimization, sales channel optimization, brand optimization and logistics optimization. To ensure the implementation of the strategy, we designed a guaranteed roadmap, including user-demand oriented product development management, improvement of human resource management structure, optimization of operation structure and logistics supply chain enhancement. Finally, we hope this solution to be effective in a pandemic situation. © 2022, ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.