Review of Supply Chain Vulnerability Studies

Among all the environments for the running of enterprises,the supply chain is the most direct one.In the supply chain level,the dynamics of supply chain and the complexity of the internal of the supply chain cause some defects in the supply chain itself,which makes it vulnerable to the interference in the outside.The vulnerability of the supply chain may lead to the interrupt of the supply chain;it will bring about all aspects of the problems in business performance of the supply chain;and the risk of supply chain will become a reality.So,the vulnerability of the supply chain and how to measure this problem is of great significance.The short history of study on supply chain vulnerability makes the task of carrying out research on it very difficult.Based on the summary and review of the current situation of supply chain vulnerability studies,the author points out that we should further strengthen research on the causes,evaluation indicators and countermeasures of supply chain vulnerability and the hot points of related study to organize our future study.