Supply chain resilience: new challenges and opportunities

ABSTRACT

Considering the tighter collaboration, increased complexity and ever-wider geographic dispersion in the global supply chain, supply chain uncertainties and risks remain a key managerial challenge to build a resilient supply chain. From this perspective, in this study, a structured literature review on extant studies related to supply chain resilience in the past decade is conducted. Given a general descriptive analysis and an in-depth content analysis in terms of problem-oriented and methodology-driven dimensions, the research progress for building resilient supply chains is depicted. Then, following a ‘why-what-how’ logic, revisiting of the Triple-A (alignment, agility and adaptiveness), Triple-P (product complexity, process complexity and partnership complexity) and Triple-R (readiness, responsiveness and restoration) frameworks are conducted to sort out the challenges and research gaps for the development of supply chain resilience across the globe. Finally, a generalised framework is proposed and research opportunities for future development are discussed.

KEYWORDS:

• Supply chain resilience
• SLR
• Triple-A framework
• Triple-P framework
• Triple-R framework

Acknowledgements

The authors sincerely thank the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive and important comments on the paper. This paper is supported by Major Program of the National Social Science Foundation of China (grant number 22&ZD139)

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 Dimensions include (1) narrative literature review (NLR), systematic literature review (SLR), model/conceptual framework (CM/CF) and theoretical contribution (TC).

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Funding

This work was supported by Major Program of the National Social Science Foundation of China: [Grant Number 22&ZD139].