PMID- 34629691
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20221221
IS  - 1879-0550 (Electronic)
IS  - 0360-8352 (Print)
IS  - 0360-8352 (Linking)
VI  - 160
DP  - 2021 Oct
TI  - Investigating the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on sustainable supplier selection in 
      the Nigerian manufacturing sector.
PG  - 107588
LID - 10.1016/j.cie.2021.107588 [doi]
AB  - 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 Triple-Bottom-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.
CI  - (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Orji, Ifeyinwa Juliet
AU  - Orji IJ
AD  - Research Center for Smarter Supply Chain, Dongwu Business School, Soochow 
      University, Suzhou 215006, PR China.
FAU - Ojadi, Frank
AU  - Ojadi F
AD  - Department of Operations Management, Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic 
      University (formerly Pan-African University), Nigeria.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210730
PL  - England
TA  - Comput Ind Eng
JT  - Computers & industrial engineering
JID - 101729445
PMC - PMC8490952
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - COVID-19 pandemic
OT  - Manufacturing sector
OT  - Supply chain sustainability
OT  - Sustainable supplier selection
OT  - Triple-Bottom-Line (TBL)
COIS- The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or 
      personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in 
      this paper.
EDAT- 2021/10/12 06:00
MHDA- 2021/10/12 06:01
PMCR- 2021/07/30
CRDT- 2021/10/11 05:47
PHST- 2021/10/11 05:47 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/10/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/10/12 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/07/30 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S0360-8352(21)00492-7 [pii]
AID - 107588 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.cie.2021.107588 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Comput Ind Eng. 2021 Oct;160:107588. doi: 10.1016/j.cie.2021.107588. Epub 2021 
      Jul 30.