Exploring pillars of supply chain competitiveness: insights from leading global supply chains
通过文献综述和Gartner供应链25强企业实践分析，识别出创新、可持续性、协作、信息技术、敏捷性和灵活性六大供应链竞争力支柱，并指出后疫情时代需综合运用这些支柱以保持竞争力。
This paper aims to explore key pillars of supply chain competitiveness (SCC) and understand how top supply chains remain competitive in the long term. The research design is divided into two phases. First, an extensive review of the scholarly SCC literature is conducted to identify the core pillars that help achieve SCC. Second, the literature published in practitioner outlets on the five selected companies of Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25 is scrutinized to understand how top supply chains apply the core pillars of SCC in practice. A total of 193 scientific and practitioner articles were analyzed to develop the key pillars of SCC. This study identified six key pillars of SCC in the literature: innovation, sustainability, collaboration, information technology, agility, and flexibility. It has been found that a combination of these pillars, if not all, will be required to remain competitive in the post-COVID-19 era.