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Title Investigating the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on sustainable supplier selection in the Nigerian manufacturing sector
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Authors Orji, IJ; Ojadi, F
Title Investigating the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on sustainable supplier selection in the Nigerian manufacturing sector
Year 2021
Published
DOI 10.1016/j.cie.2021.107588
Abstract Over the years, sustainable supplier selection (SSS) has become increasingly popular among scholars and practitioners as a viable means to actualize supply chain sustainability. Little, however, is known about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable supplier selection particularly in the manufacturing sector. In this paper, we present pandemic response strategies as a significant aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact and investigate the relative importance of such strategies in SSS implementation. Drawing upon a rich data pool from the Nigerian manufacturing sector, we proposed an integrated multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology to analyse the interrelationships between the COVID-19 pandemic response strategies and TripleBottom-Line (TBL) criteria for SSS. Our analysis shows that economic criteria and pandemic response strategies are the highest ranked in terms of relative importance and thereby pinpoints the need for manufacturing firms to emphasize such during SSS implementation in the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, quality, cost, use of personal protective equipment and use of information technologies for customer demand prediction are inferred as highly significant in SSS implementation in the COVID-19 pandemic era. Furthermore, the efficiency of the proposed methodology was validated by a comparative analysis with other MCDM methods. Therefore, this study presents implications on the significance of pandemic response strategies in SSS and thereby enriches literature on the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on supply chains.
Author Keywords Sustainable supplier selection; COVID-19 pandemic; Manufacturing sector; Triple-Bottom-Line (TBL); Supply chain sustainability
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000696311000008
WoS Category Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Engineering, Industrial
Research Area Computer Science; Engineering
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