SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE AND CAPACITY UTILIZATION OF FOOD AND BEVERAGE COMPANIES IN THE POST COVID-19 ERA IN RIVERS STATE.

Abstract

The study examined supply chain resilience and capacity utilisation of food and beverage companies in the post covid-19 era in Rivers State. Two (2) objectives and two (2) hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The cross-sectional explanatory survey research design was adopted. The target population of this study was one hundred and eighty five (185) employees from twenty (20) food and beverage companies in Rivers State. The sample size is the entire population of 185 employees. The study adopted resourced based theory. Spearman Rank Order Correlation Coefficient was used in for bivariate analyses (testing the hypotheses one and two). The findings revealed that there is a significant positive influence of supply chain resilience and capacity utilisation of food and beverage companies in the post covid-19 era in Rivers State. The study concluded that supply chain resilience influences capacity utilization of food and beverage companies in the post covid-19 era in Rivers State. The research therefore, recommended that Food and beverage firms in Rivers State should develop agility at all time and at all cost. This will enable them to absorb shocks from unforeseen pandemic on like in the era of covid-19 were supply chain was disrupted.