Author(s)

Wei Shang, Yijun Wang, Yan Chen, Lingfei Zhu, Jiaqi Sheng, Bo Zhang, Jun Yue

Corresponding Author

Yijun Wang

Abstract

Supply chain resilience is the ability of a supply chain to keep performance when facing global crises. Large enterprises (LEs) and small- and medium-enterprises (SMEs) cooperate with each other to achieve better performance and increase resilience. In the present study, we establish a dynamic equilibrium model by considering supply chain resilience. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the network connectivity, cooperation closeness, and production adjustment capability will positively affect the resilience and overall performance of the supply chain network. This positive effect will be more significant for the scale-free network structure. The present study implicates that large manufacturer have the advantage of scale effect and play an important role in the supply chain network in response to supply chain crises. Increasing the capability of production capacity exchange between large manufacturers and small- and medium-manufacturers will be an important strategy for the entire supply chain network to deal with the crises as a whole.

Keywords

Supply Chain Complex Network, Network Equilibrium Optimization, Supply Chain Collaboration