Title: Identification and analysis of key factors affecting circular supply chain resiliency in post COVID-19 era: an analysis of emerging economy's auto sector

Authors: Manju Saroha; Dixit Garg; Sunil Luthra

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra-136119, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra-136119, India ' Ch. Ranbir Singh State Institute of Engineering and Technology (CRSSIET), Jhajjar-124103, India

Abstract: The coronavirus outburst reveals that pandemic situation can wildly impoverish the global supply chain. The pandemic has propelled the supply chain (SC) of industries at serious risk and disruption. To overcome the downfall of SC, the only way out is to work on sustainable and circular supply chain (CSC) resiliency after COVID-19 era by understanding the factors affecting CSC resiliency. The paper diagnosed the factors affecting CSC resiliency of Indian industries by using fuzzy-analytical hierarchy process (fuzzy-AHP). This unfolds the priority of the identified factors and explains that the governmental guidelines are the most important factor, which provides guidelines, laws, and policies for the particular situation, followed by technological innovation, logistics, and localisation of SC for CSC resiliency post-COVID-19 era. The results help the managers and decision makers to deal with the effects of the pandemic and better knowledge of the factors for making plans to get out of this coronavirus outburst for sustainability.

Keywords: COVID-19; key factors; circular supply chain; CSC; supply chain resiliency; analytical hierarchy process; AHP; fuzzy-AHP; emerging economy; auto sector.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2025.144846

International Journal of Business Excellence, 2025 Vol.35 No.2, pp.235 - 264

Received: 31 Dec 2020
Accepted: 21 Jun 2021
Published online: 05 Mar 2025 *

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