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In recent years, the field of supply chain management (SCM) has undergone significant changes and developments. These include the emergence of new concepts such as green logistics, reverse logistics, logistics 4.0, digitalisation, the Internet of Things (IoT), and others. Despite these changes and other improvements in SCM, the global pandemic has emerged as a major disruption to the smooth flow of goods, people, and materials. Perhaps more than any other event in modern history, the pandemic paralysed the world and revealed the crucial importance of mastering and recombining the SCM to overcome crises. The scale of the disruption caused by this crisis across countries and industries shows that pandemics are qualitatively different from normal disruptions. This crisis has put SC and SCM to the test, and has served as a trigger for re-examining the relevance of previous conceptions of SC and SCM in the new normal.