The Covid-19 crisis has driven home the need for collaboration, partnerships, and alliances among businesses like never before, Hindustan Unilever (HUL) Chairman and Managing Director Sanjiv Mehta said on Friday. Mehta was delivering his keynote address virtually on the second day of the Amazon Smbhav Summit, where he pointed out that to stay resilient and agile, it was important to have a nimble supply chain and a data-driven ecosystem that could be dynamically managed. “At HUL, for instance, we drove the fast recovery of operations through strategic partnerships. In some cases, even collaborating with manufacturers and other industries to meet the rising demand of some products,” he said.