Discussion Topic: E-Supply Chain Management

Critical Thinking

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The scientific community agrees that major outbreaks of communicable diseases, like COVID-19 will be
highly likely in the future, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Furthermore, we are also
likely to experience additional disruptions to supply chains that result from climate change and political
instability.
This outbreak played a serious role in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and also reduced workforces to complete
shutdowns, many industries and sectors are suffering due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and manufacturing
is taking one of the largest hits.
According to the General Authority for Statistics ,Saudi Arabia’s index for industrial production dropped
3.29 percent in March 2020 when compared to the same month last year due to the coronavirus
pandemic.
“The decrease in industrial production resulted mainly from lower production in non-oil manufacturing
activities (down by 11.46 percent), as the COVID-19 pandemic led some factories to reduce the
production operations late in the month” .
As a Project manager what measures are you going to take for your organization under below
mentioned issues:

Critical Question(s)-1: (2.5- Marks)
How will you measure supply chain and production risks and what you could do to mitigate those risks?

Critical Question(s)-2: (2.5- Marks)
Also, when a crisis like rapidly changing prices on consumable items (Ex. face masks).
what steps will you consider to reduce costs, both in the short and medium term?

Critical Question(s)-3: (2.5- Marks)
Discuss the role technology and its importance during Covid time. Also discuss solutions which
provided by the organisations.

Critical Question(s)-4: (2.5- Marks)
Discuss the role of Lean manufacturing in the post Covid.

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