The Efficiency Drivers in Logistic Firm to Engage the Imminence Covid-19

Abstract

It has been catastrophic for the year 2020 with a Covid-19 pandemic outbreak with more thanlO million confirmed cases and hundred thousand of deaths throughout the globe. Most countries issued a total lockdown in order to break the coronavirus chain and this is affecting the economic sectors as a whole especially in logistics sector. There have been uproars such as warehouse congestion due to lack of employees as per standard operation procedure and billions of dollars loss due to lack of ship call during Restricted Movement Order (RMO). Due to the perceived restriction, it was found that logistics firm fails to adapt with the sudden pandemic and most of them cannot come up with a contingency plan to confront with such situation. Thus, deep literature reviews in this study is to understand how logistic firms can adapt with the new norm and to explore the efficiency drivers affecting logistics system to operate effectively. In short, the findings of this study are vital for logistics firm to operate efficiently and to be well-prepared for a future sporadic exasperate pandemic.