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The document discusses the impact of COVID-19 on Apple's device production and sales. It outlines how factory closures in China impacted Apple's supply chain and the company's inability to meet global demands. It also explains how Apple store closures and restrictions led to a 61% drop in iPhone sales in China in August 2020 compared to the previous year. Suggestions are provided on ways companies can adapt, including monitoring employee health, redesigning workspaces, and using robots to allow for social distancing.

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The document discusses the impact of COVID-19 on Apple's device production and sales. It outlines how factory closures in China impacted Apple's supply chain and the company's inability to meet global demands. It also explains how Apple store closures and restrictions led to a 61% drop in iPhone sales in China in August 2020 compared to the previous year. Suggestions are provided on ways companies can adapt, including monitoring employee health, redesigning workspaces, and using robots to allow for social distancing.

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Introduction

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Hello everyone, please allow me to introduce myself ... .. Representing the


group ... .. First, I would like to introduce the members of the group in turn
including: Mai Nhat Linh, Vu Nhat Minh and Nguyen Thi Khanh Linh.

Our presentation topic is: COVID-19 Coronavirus: Impact on Apple's iPhone, Mac
and more

Here we will analyze some majors difficulties that the company is facing in terms
of production and sales.
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Coronavirus Impact on Apple's Device Production


- Due to the pandemic, governments around the world have significant limitations in
transportation (land, water and air transport) goods, as well as in moving labor.
Reports show that the use of trucks for distribution purposes has decreased to 60%
since the restrictions in France, 30% before the pandemic (FAO, 2020J; Bakalis et al.,
2020).
- Many of Apple's suppliers in China were forced to shut down production for several
weeks in early February of 2020 , with the factory closures coming right after the
Lunar New Year holiday. Main iPhone suppliers that include Foxconn and Pegatron
were closed for quite some time because an outbreak of COVID-19 at a supplier
campus where workers live in close quarters would be devastating.
- Apple implemented travel restrictions for its employees, and employees have not
been able to travel to China to begin the preparation process that takes place ahead of
when new flagship iPhones are manufactured. Apple employees typically travel to
China to perfect their manufacturing processes with partners like Foxconn, and delays
ate into the time that Apple needs to finalize orders for chips and other ‌iPhone‌
components.
- => These facts result in Apple’s supply was unable to meet demands all over the
world.

Coronavirus Impact on Apple's Device Sales


- When news of COVID-19 spread since Febuary 2020 to September 2021, the
infection numbers began to rise. Apple shut down all retail stores, corporate offices,
and contact centers in many major cities from all over the world for many weeks.
- Apple sold 494,000 iPhones in China in August, a 61% drop compared to the 1.3
million the company sold in August of 2020, according to data released on Monday
from China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).
Apple hasn't confirmed the sales data, but the steep decline suggests coronavirus,
which has impacted China more forcefully than any other country in the world, is
significantly affecting Apple's core smartphone business.
- In an interview with Fortune on Monday, Needham & Co. analyst Laura Martin says
Apple's China sales will account for about 15% of the company's total revenue during
the March quarter. And considering the iPhone accounts for vast majority of Apple's
sales, the 61% drop in Chinese iPhone sales in February, alone, could shave billions
of dollars off Apple's quarterly performance.

Some suggestion

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- The explosion of Covid-19 also led to difficulty requirements for human resource management.
These challenges include the changes of working conditions, applying new workplace policies
and actions to reduce human contact (Carnevale and Hatak, 2020). Therefore, organizations must
respond to challenges with some measures. First, Covid-19 symptoms of workers, visitors,
suppliers and contractors should be monitored before entering the facility. Food safety teams or
HACCP teams can perform temperature screening of all employees at the entrance of the factory.
Monitoring workers wearing face protection and gloves are also important.

- Warehouses and processing facilities should be redesigned to allow employees to make social
ways. Building partitions or barriers including the upper part of the worker body can be used to
maintain social distance.

- Robot machines can also be used to reduce the risk related to Covid-19 workers during
coronavirus outbreaks. Moreover, robots can replace people in food processing activities to
maintain social spacing by reducing the number of employees.

Conclusion
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These are the main sources used to prove the points in our presentation
Clover, J. (2020). COVID-19 Coronavirus: Impact on Apple's iPhone, Mac and WWDC
[Online] Accessed on September 27th, 2021

Martin, L. (2020). iPhone sales drop 61% year-over-year, report says, as Apple struggles
with coronavirus [Online] https://fortune.com/2020/03/09/apple-iphone-china-coronavirus-
sales Accessed on September 27th, 2021

Carnevale, J B, Hatak, I. (2020). Employee adjustment and well-being in the era of COVID-
19: implications for human resource management. Journal of Business Research, 116:
183–187. Google Scholar

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) (2020a) 


Adjusting business models to sustain agri-food enterprises during COVID-19 [Online].
  http://www.fao.org/3/ca8996en/CA8996EN.pdf. Accessed on September 27th, 2021

Bakalis, S, Valdramidis, V P, Argyropoulos, et al. (2020). Perspectives from CO+RE: how


COVID-19 changed our food systems and food security paradigms. Current Research in
Food Science, 3: 166–172.Google Scholar

Crisp. (2020). Get a LIVE view into COVID-19 effects on in-store purchases [Online].
https://www.gocrisp.com/demandwatch. Accessed on September 27th, 2021

Thank you for your time, on behalf of our presentation group we sincerely thank you.

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