Ready-Made-Garments: Supply-Chain Management & COVID-19 Impacts

ABSTRACT

Though supply chain management (SCM) is widely researched in several application domains, SCM literature concentrates more on the production industry, the service sector, and, far less so, SCM academics. In articulating SCM theory and development, this chapter highlights its chronological services/manufacturing business perspectives. While standard supply chain, from raw material to finished products, for service and manufacturing industries, includes various intermediate parties/organizations, what this paper concentrates on is the evolutionary SCM timeline and the essential SCM principles of the ready-made garments (RMG) industry. Such an analysis illustrates the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on localizing the global RMG production network industry inside Bangladesh. Various effective ways of short-term and mid-to-long-term action factors to operate supply chain stand out, as too the need for reshaping the future supply chain. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.