Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to result in severe disruptions to food supply chains. In this research, we present a simulation study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food supply chains and their sustainability using the lobster industry in Nova Scotia, Canada, as an example. The main contributions of this paper are twofold. First, it analyzes how the pandemic has negatively disrupted lobster supply chains and their sustainability. Second, it demonstrates how a simulation-based methodology based on the software AnyLogistix can be applied to examine the effects of a pandemic on food supply chains. We show the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic from four perspectives: production-inventory dynamics, customer performance, financial performance, and lead-time performance. Our findings include the following. First, the pandemic has created a backlog problem for the live lobster industry. Second, it has significantly increased the lead time of the lobster supply chain. Overall, this research can help the government and trade organizations to devise appropriate policies to reduce the negative impacts of the pandemic on food supply chains and their sustainability.
Highlights
Over the past several decades, global supply chains have become critical to the success of many firms and industries
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the novel coronavirus disease as a pandemic, given that there were more than 121,000 cases in 118 countries
E goals of this paper are twofold. e first is to analyze how the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively disrupted Canadian food supply chains from four perspectives: production-inventory dynamics, customer performance, financial performance, and lead-time performance. e second is to demonstrate how the simulation-based methodology can be used to examine and predict the effects of the pandemic on food supply chains. To achieve these two goals, we conduct a simulation study to analyze how Canadian food supply chains have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic using lobster industry in Nova Scotia as an example
Summary
Over the past several decades, global supply chains have become critical to the success of many firms and industries. E second is to demonstrate how the simulation-based methodology can be used to examine and predict the effects of the pandemic on food supply chains. To achieve these two goals, we conduct a simulation study to analyze how Canadian food supply chains have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic using lobster industry in Nova Scotia as an example. For the simulation in this research, we adopt the AnyLogistix software to analyze the complex supply chain system for the Canadian lobster industry.
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