Global Supply Chain Resilience: Offshoring, Nearshoring or Reshoring Post COVID Pandemic

نوع المستند : المقالة الأصلية

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Deputy Dean for Academic Research and Postgraduates Studies, College of Management and Technology, Arab Academy for Science & Technology, Alexandria, Egypt,

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Global supply chain (GSC) trade has developed over the last 30 years. It assigns a primary responsibilities of product design and production to be placed offshore. Decisions are used to be undertaken cross-border to ensure smoothness of material and information flow and ensure the product’ completion.
Nowadays, with Post pandemic and global chain activities disruption, There is an emergent call to get the production facilities contributing in global chain out of China post pandemic outbreak. “If you have most of your suppliers in Wuhan, then you had a problem. But if you diversify, then you’ll be able to respond better.” Experts claim. The pandemic has highlighted the fragility of global reliance in Chinese Production. It lead us to key argument” Does the Reshoring to home country ensure supply chain resilience?” or fragility of global chain was not engraved with the severity of the impact of COVID-19. Shall the decisions makers restructure the global value chain as subsequent effect of pandemic?. This study investigate how can global value chain react Post pandemic and which alternatives they have either to keep off-shoring their activities or relocating their activities nearshoring or reshoring it back home. 
The study explores multi-industry experience to figure out the adopted approach to react to pandemic disruptions. The study propose a comprehensive model for decision makers to consider their alternatives post pandemic to respond to any expected disruption.

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