Smrutiranjan Mohanty

Associate Professor, Indira School of Business Studies, Pune

Dhanraj P.Tambuskar

Professor, Balaji Institute of Modern Management, Sri Balaji University, Pune

Abstract

In a supply chain operation, disruption is a normal phenomenon due to unforeseen occurrences of natural disasters, vehicle breakdowns, and accidents. Hence, some amount of agility and robustness is always incorporated into the supply chain (SC). But the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic has changed the scenario of business and so of the supply chain. Large-scale disruption, with almost global lockdown, has forced business entities and researchers to look beyond the resilience and think of a long-term practical measure. Transport, which is the backbone of SCM, need to be tackled on a first-hand priority. In this paper, the study focuses on exploring the present transportation system of the Indian business scenario and its disruption due to Covid 19. This research is based on secondary data. A simple regression method was used to analyze the data and make predictions. An attempt has been made to understand the scenario of post-Covid19 transportation logistics and a model has been proposed to mitigate SC risk to withstand any disaster like Covid 19 in the future.

Keywords- Railway transport, Risk Mitigation, Road Transport, SCM risk, Transport Risk Mitigation Model and Triangulation method