The Covid-19 global pandemic has disrupted supply chains worldwide. This supply chain disruption would have impacted procurement in an organisation.

Any of the following procurement areas could be impacted from Covid-19 outbreak:

• supply of products and/or services the organisation has outsourced,

• commodity procurement,

• global sourcing,

• capital procurement or

• project procurement.

Refer back to the organisation for your answer to Question 1(b).

(a) First, describe which procurement areas of the organisation were impacted by Covid-19. Then, examine how to manage any conflict and dispute in buyer- supplier relations, arising from the procurement area(s) impacted in the organisation.

(b) Develop a plan to manage Supply Side Risk, based on the experience learned from the Covid-19 pandemic for the organisation.