Challenges to Promoting Resilience in Supply Chains Observed during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Exploratory Study of the Amazon Region Using the TOPSIS Technique

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Dhiordan Cunha Tadaiesky, Joaquim Lima das Neves Neto, A. C. S. Melo, R. Anholon, Eliane de Castro Coutinho, V. Martins
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has moved the world in every way, directly impacting supply chains globally and bringing major challenges to management, decision-makers, and companies of all sizes and sectors. This intensifies when it comes to the Brazilian Amazon region, a place that historically already lives with several maintenance projects focused on supply chain management (SCM). Methods: Thus, this research aimed to understand the main challenges faced by professionals in the supply chain area in the Amazon region through the development of a survey with professionals in the area. This study conducted a structured questionnaire containing 10 challenges related to SCM during the pandemic period to generate a ranking of these challenges using data analysis using means and comparative ordering using the TOPSIS Multicriteria Technique. Results: It was observed that the most relevant challenges for companies in this region were, respectively, distribution, economic problems, and interruptions in supply and demand. These obstacles promote debates with the literature and foster the expansion of knowledge about the insertion of resilience elements in supply chains in the Amazon. Conclusions: From a theoretical point of view and because it is exploratory research, the results serve as a basis for researchers in the area who aim to understand and expand the debates on this topic through future research. From a practical point of view, the results can help supply chain managers in the Amazon region who work directly in its maintenance and aim to maintain its resilience, since they already have the main challenges for the proper functioning of supply chains identified and ranked. Because it is an exploratory study, the results achieved can contribute significantly to the expansion of debates in the area and in a practical way with managers involved in activities that compose supply chains.
在COVID-19大流行期间观察到的促进供应链弹性的挑战:使用TOPSIS技术对亚马逊地区的探索性研究
背景:2019冠状病毒病大流行在各个方面影响着世界,直接影响着全球供应链,给各种规模和行业的管理层、决策者和公司带来重大挑战。当涉及到巴西亚马逊地区时,这种情况就会加剧,该地区历史上已经有几个专注于供应链管理(SCM)的维护项目。方法:因此,本研究旨在通过对该地区专业人士的调查,了解亚马逊地区供应链领域专业人士面临的主要挑战。本研究进行了一项结构化问卷调查,其中包含大流行期间与供应链管理相关的10项挑战,利用数据分析方法和TOPSIS多标准技术的比较排序对这些挑战进行排名。结果:该地区企业面临的最相关挑战分别是分销、经济问题和供需中断。这些障碍促进了与文献的辩论,并促进了关于在亚马逊供应链中插入弹性元素的知识的扩展。结论:从理论的角度来看,由于这是一项探索性研究,因此研究结果为该领域的研究人员提供了基础,他们旨在通过未来的研究来理解和扩大关于这一主题的争论。从实际的角度来看,研究结果可以帮助亚马逊地区的供应链经理,他们直接从事供应链的维护工作,并旨在保持其弹性,因为他们已经有了供应链正常运作的主要挑战,并对其进行了识别和排名。由于这是一项探索性研究,因此所取得的结果可以为扩大该领域的辩论做出重大贡献,并以实际的方式与参与构成供应链的活动的管理人员进行讨论。
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