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Supply Chain Resilience Strategies and Post-Disruption Recovery — Lessons from Indian Pharmaceutical and Automotive Industries

Author(s):

Kavitha Sundaram, Prabhu Nataraj, Anjali Krishnan

Affiliation: Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management, T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Page No: 57-60-

Volume issue & Publishing Year: Volume 3, Issue 3, 2026/03/16

Journal: International Journal of Modern Engineering and Management | IJMEM

ISSN NO: 3048-8230

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Abstract:

COVID-19 exposed critical supply chain vulnerabilities in India's globally integrated manufacturing sectors. Five years on, the Red Sea crisis (December 2023–2024), Taiwan Strait tensions, and post-pandemic chip supply normalisation have created a sustained multi-disruption environment requiring durable rather than episodic resilience investment. This study examines supply chain resilience strategies and their recovery performance consequences across 247 firms in Indian pharmaceuticals and automotive sectors using longitudinal panel data (2020–2025) combined with Cox Proportional Hazard modelling of disruption recovery events. Resilience strategies are classified across four dimensions — redundancy, flexibility, agility, and collaboration — assessed through annual surveys and triangulated against logistics performance data from the National Logistics Portal and e-Way Bill analytics. Time-to-Recovery (TTR), Revenue Recovery Rate (RRR), and Supply Chain Disruption Cost (SCDC) are the primary performance metrics. Digital supply chain visibility combined with multi-sourcing reduces median TTR by 44 days (51% reduction) relative to undigitised single-source operations. PLI Scheme tranche investments have reduced pharmaceutical API import dependence from 68% (2019) to 48% (March 2025), with PLI-incentivised firms showing 16.2 percentage point higher RRR at 24 months. The Red Sea crisis of 2024 functioned as a natural experiment: firms with pre-built multi-modal logistics redundancy recovered 38 days faster than sea-freight-dependent peers.

Keywords:

supply chain resilience, Red Sea crisis, API manufacturing, PLI scheme, multi-sourcing, Time-to-Recovery, digital visibility, automotive, pharma, India 2025

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