HCM City, April 9 -- Eighty-three percent of companies in the physical value chain in Vietnam have been suffering from supply issues over the past two months due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent survey by CEL Vietnam, a supply chain consulting and training firm, has found.

Of them, 47 percent had issues specifically with China supplies and a large majority involved raw materials , it said.

Julien Brun, managing partner at CEL, said the pandemic is affecting every single country regardless of their level of development.

However, in Vietnam, there were categories where demand clearly surged, such as packaged food (up 26 percent), dairy (up 10 percent) and personal care (29 percent), he said.

This surge in demand looked l...