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How is COVID-19 altering the manufacturing landscape? A literature review of imminent challenges and management interventions
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Ramakrishnan Raman
Annals of Operations Research, Volume: 335, Issue: 3, Pages: 1567 - 1599
Swansea University Author:
Yogesh Dwivedi
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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s10479-021-04397-2
Abstract
Disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic has caused major upheavals for manufacturing, and has severe implications for production networks, and the demand and supply chains underpinning manufacturing operations. This paper is the first of its kind to pull together research on both—the pandemic-related...
| Published in: | Annals of Operations Research |
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| ISSN: | 0254-5330 1572-9338 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2024
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58539 |
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Disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic has caused major upheavals for manufacturing, and has severe implications for production networks, and the demand and supply chains underpinning manufacturing operations. This paper is the first of its kind to pull together research on both—the pandemic-related challenges and the management interventions in a manufacturing context. This systematic literature review reveals the frailty of supply chains and production networks in withstanding the pressures of lockdowns and other safety protocols, including product and workforce shortages. These, altogether, have led to closed facilities, reduced capacities, increased costs, and severe economic uncertainty for manufacturing businesses. In managing these challenges and stabilising their operations, manufacturers are urgently intervening by—investing in digital technologies, undertaking resource redistribution and repurposing, regionalizing and localizing, servitizing, and targeting policies that can help them survive in this altered economy. Based on holistic analysis of these challenges and interventions, this review proposes an extensive research agenda for future studies to pursue. |
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| Keywords: |
COVID-19 challenges; Digital technologies; Manufacturing; Pandemic; Repurposing |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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Swansea University. |
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3 |
| Start Page: |
1567 |
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1599 |