Special issue: Advancing supply chain resilience for excellence in the post-pandemic era

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented severe challenges to global supply chains and has triggered discussion about supply chain resilience(SCR).In the post-pandemic era,although residents'consumption has rebounded under the stimulation of the government's financial policies and the disruption of the supply chain has been alleviated,firms still face great challenges of restarting their supply chains.On the one hand,the global supply chain is still fragile.The outbreak of the epidemic may continue,and the risk of supply chain disruption cannot be ignored.On the other hand,the manufacturer's production cost is further increased due to the substantial increase in international raw material prices,labor costs and transportation costs,and the production cycle is further prolonged.Therefore,SCR in the post-epidemic era is subject to multiple challenges from the external environment,as well as both supply and demand sides.As observed in practice,many firms turned out to have poor performances on achieving SCR.Some even hardly displayed any capabilities in coping with this crisis.In such circumstances,properly designing,building,and managing resilient supply chains is imperative to cope with unexpected exogenous shocks.