Disturbance Management Strategy in the Food Supply Chain in the middle of Pandemic COVID-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic raises problems for the industry on a large scale. Among them, the food supply chain has experienced disruption due to government policies such as the closure of several road accesses and WFH activities as a form of handling COVID-19. This paper aims to analyze disruption and find coping strategies in food supply chain activities. By using the SWOT analysis method. Based on the IFAS-EFAS calculation, it is known that several disturbances that occur in the food supply chain, such as limited transportation access, inadequate production, a decline in value inventory turnover and needs space increased. The output of this research is a coping strategy, namely online marketing and maintaining the stability of food commodity prices, providing innovative rules regarding agricultural land, maintaining product quality and efficient use, increasing the scale of production and distribution as needed, and creating farmer empowerment programs.