A global trade supply chain vulnerability in COVID-19 pandemic: An assessment metric of risk and resilience-based efficiency of CoDEA method

Suriyan Jomthanachai, Wai-Peng Wong, Keng-Lin Soh and Chee-Peng Lim

Research in Transportation Economics, 2022, vol. 93, issue C

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has an adverse impact on the global trade supply chain. Countries where the economy is driven by global trade, either as exporters or importers and are faced with the problem of declining imports and exports. This is due to the interruption of the main players of the global supply chain (i.e., production, logistics and transportation sector) as well as the slow-down in consumption of overseas customers. This paper presents the development of an efficiency related metric from the Coherent Data Envelopment Analysis (CoDEA) method for assessing the vulnerability (or conversely, the robustness) levels of the supply chain system of six ASEAN countries. The results reveal that Thailand is most vulnerable to international supply chain issues indicated by its lowest efficiency score. This is due to Thailand's severe disruption of logistics and transportation systems compared with its neighboring countries. In contrast, Vietnam is the most robust because of its efficiency in the exports sector. Our research reveals that trading partners with a lower risk and the ability to rapidly recover their import volume reflect their less vulnerable supply chains. This research provides the associated strategies to establish a resilient global supply chain in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19; Vulnerability; Risk; Resilience; Global supply chain; Data envelopment analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C00 D81 M10 M16 M19 N70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2021.101166

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