Here, the role of operations management is set in the conversion of various assets and materials in the business into products, either goods or services. However, this is done in the most efficient and effective manner possible so as to maximize the profit margins of the named business entity. Regardless of the elaborate plans and allocations made for various issues that may arise in the business operations do not cover extremes such as pandemics. Here, it is complex to allude to the happenings in the business field with specific resurgences. Instead, most businesses just shift their operations and adapt to the set of ensuring situations, modifying the operational, structural, and executional approaches to their business practices.

The challenges posed by covid-19, in this case, incommoded an array of operational blocks in various businesses. The enactment of social distancing and various restrictions meant to limit human interactions and alleviate the spreading of the virus played this role. It is apparent that the humanitarian crisis induced by the coronavirus pandemic introduced new proponents and aspects in operations management. In the United States, just as the rest of the world, the food and beverage industry was one of the sectors that were hard hit by the effects of the pandemic. The effect that Cpvid-19 incepted in this industry was directly tied to the set of services and various functions that compliment the food and supply chain, the rate and the approach to food production, processing, distribution, and the demand attributed to various products and services. Concerning this, it is apparent that an introspective analysis needs to be carried out across different business outfits dealing with food and beverages across the United States. Here, similar companies, JBS Company and Tyson Foods, which deal in the lone of meat processing, will be analyzed so as to come up with the relevant conclusions to allude to several resulting impacts to the infringement caused by Covid-19 on the industry. Therefore, this research will take into account the array of short and long-term issues of Covid-19 on selected companies to ascertain the impact that Covid-19 has introduced to the organizations.

Literature Review

Overview Covid-19 on the Food Supply Chain

Covid-19 pandemic introduced a disruptive and completely unprecedented effect on the fundamental supply chains that exist in the food supply chain. For most food and beverage industries, this issue introduced a new aspect into the way the standing and the organization of the industry will fair in case of future disruptions or humanity scares of the same scale. The major disruption that Covid-19 incepted in the food and beverage is more likely to be attributed to the effect it introduced to supply patterns rather than the primary production of the food. Here, the stalls and disruptions that have been incurred in the processing industries, in particular the meat industry, have led to a market-balance collapse. This issue arises from the disconnection that is incepted in the supply chain that traverses across the entirety of the stakeholders in the food industry. The processing disruption has led to the consequential attribution of surges in the producer surpluses. This implies that the consumers have to be accorded resultant shortages of various products. Additionally, the decrease in some specific products has led to reverse effects in the supply chain;- an increased supply met with considerably low demand for such products.

Logistics in the food and beverage industry have been one of the main facets in the manufacturing sector that have been adversely affected by the ensuring coronavirus outbreak, from the inception point;-the agricultural production in farming and breeding of different agricultural animals and plants to the manufacturing plants. Most specifically, the intensity that is involved in the industry has been one of the major downsides that various individuals and firms have to contend with within the production and supply chains in the agricultural field. Here, it is apparent that different measures have to be taken within the supply chain in order to incommode a high level of competence and professionalism. The understanding of the food manufacturing and processing plants presents several contending issues that, in the long run, are viewed as the proponents of better performance within this field. For instance, the staffing and the general work specifications within the food and beverage industry had to be modified to be in line with the ensuring issues that the Covid-19 pandemic introduced.

Covid-19 and all the array of the restrictions that have been incepted to handle and contain its spread has led to unprecedented challenges and stress on the full understanding and perception of the food supply chains. Here, the bottlenecks have been especially