Supply Chain Management of Cotton During Covid-19

The supply chain plays a dynamic role in movements of goods and services in the economy of a country. . As and when, it is afflicted by either by internal defaults or external blows, it inflicts heavy losses on the industries whether measurable or not. The outbreak Covid-19 in March 2020 in India had almost slowed down the wheels of the economy. The preventive measures ordered by the Government for the purpose of controlling its impact have adversely affected the supply chains in business. Every industry or business possesses its own traditional and conventional supply chain from suppliers to producers and from producers to customers. The paper attempts to examine and highlight the impact of Covid-19, on the supply chain. It attempts to examine the effect of the pandemic on supply chain of cotton from cotton growers to the cotton spinning mill in Vidarbha from March 2020 to December 2021. The distribution margin i.e. the gap between the cost of goods received by the producer and the sales revenue of the supplier, denotes the efficiency of supply chain. The effective and efficient supply chain causes to minimize the distribution margin. The paper finally concludes that the distribution margin in the case of single phase supply chain in case of cotton increased by 1.68 per cent due to the impact of the said virus in the country.