A study on the risk control of supply chain under the background of globalization

Abstract

Using modeling approach of the complex network to construct a supply chain network model, this paper has mainly studied the problem of disruption risk control of supply chain under the background of globalization. The simulation result of the supply chain network model showed that the supply chain network is scale-free. The key nodes in the supply chain network can be identified by calculating the centrality of the nodes. Detailed results demonstrated that the ability of resist disruption risks and the network resilience of a supply chain can be improved by adding redundancy of the supply chain network and keeping a high level of collaborative working of the key suppliers.

Keywords:

• risks control
• supply chain
• complex network
• key nodes

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Professor Chih-Hsing Chu for offering precious inspiration, and wish to thank Mr Will Denny for his translation contributions to this paper.