Track: Operations Management

Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has brought challenges of unprecedent proportions to the world in many aspects. For supply chain the key problem has been to minimize losses in short and long terms. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the impact of covid-19 in the supply chain and international logistics perspectives and evaluate the impacts comparing with the standard supply chain operation model. The research method applied consists in a bibliographic research with qualitative and inductive approaches applied in a single case study. The results demonstrated different impacts on the macroprocesses of the standard model, however it is important to understand the changes on the degree of impact over time due to the initial contagion increase and the in the following months. The conclusion was that an emergency plan built by the company mitigated the impacts and avoided the supply disruption of imported materials. This work stands out for being unique inside the perspective of a covid-19 in vitro diagnostic company.