Guest editorial: Post-COVID-19 sustainable supply chain management in emerging markets

Since the early 2000s, emerging markets have become the heart of global supply chains hosting a large volume of industrial productions. The second article looked into the barriers to attaining sustainability in supply chain of the Bangladeshi pharmaceutical sector and developed a hierarchical structure of those barriers using interpretive structural modeling and MICMAC analysis. The eleventh article explored a new way to assess suppliers' suitability by considering pseudo-resilience factors to achieve SSC in the post-COVID-19 era using an analytical hierarchy process and R. It also provided a case study of three smartphone processor suppliers (Jessin et al., 2023).

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[...]the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic may go beyond the merely economic performance and affect supply chain viability (Ivanov, 2020b), posing the questions of supply chain resiliency, sustainability, recovery and reconfigurability (Paul et al., 2021a, b;Cheramin et al., 2021). [...]this special issue published seven articles in the area of sustainable recovery in supply chains. The second article explored 13 critical sustainable recovery measures for transportation systems and found that efficient traffic management, sustainability-focused policies, sensitization of stakeholders, financial support and adoption of 4 R practices are important for a sustainable recovery in freight transportation systems (Dwivedi et al., 2021).

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[...]the current special section contributes by identifying the required levers and solutions enabling organizations worldwide to respond quickly and thoroughly to the COVID-19 challenges. Special thanks go to the editorial team of IJPDLM for their outstanding support. 2.1 Following are the details of accepted articles The first article attempts to identify the supply chain risks (SCRs) induced in COVID-19 outbreak titled “Supply chain risk mitigation strategies during COVID-19: exploratory cases of “make-to-order “handloom saree apparel industries.” [...]crucial factors and lessons were retrieved from the high-quality papers, supported by different research approaches.

Sustainability of supply chains in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) pandemic: lessons and trends

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to address the prioritisation and focus of supply chain managers subsequent to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)/severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the great lockdown of 2020.Design/methodology/approachIn this article, concepts and trends on resilient and sustainable supply chains are systematized. Main trends in sustainability of supply chains in the wake of COVID-19 are presented.FindingsGuidelines on building smarter and more resilient supply chains are provided and future tendencies, which includes the increase of a sustainable consumption perspective, are highlighted.Originality/valueThis is a conceptual article blended with a practical approach aiming to propose guidelines for managers and scholars on how to address supply chain management challenges after the coronavirus pandemic.