Maritime supply chain resilience: From concept to practice

Abstract

In the post COVID-19 era, changed freight patterns and trade routes, intensified anti-globalization situation, and deteriorating geopolitical conflicts exert great pressure on the maritime supply chain. The purpose of this paper is to explore how to extend supply chain resilience from concept to practice in the maritime supply chain. Based on this development vision, this paper constructs the framework of supply chain resilience through literature review, which is identified according to strategic management procedure to promote the building of supply chain resilience and deploy enterprise operational resources. The structure of resilience theoretical framework of maritime industry includes resilience goals, resilience strategies, and resilience practices. We adopt the hybrid AHP-QFD-DEMATEL method to analyze the most important resilience factors in each layer. It is concluded that robustness and adaptability are the two most important resilience goals, and the resilience strategy of collaboration and flexibility should be paid more attention in the post COVID-19 era. This study enables SCRES to extend from a conceptual perspective to a practical perspective and narrows the gap between theory and practices in the resilience study.