A Framework for Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience through Disruptive Technologies

Modern supply chains face increasing challenges such as climate disruptions, crises of outbreak diseases, unexpected events, political and economic instability, and rapid technological developments. These challenges can lead to significant disruptions and risks to supply chain performance. To encounter these challenges, more resistant and resilient supply chains are needed. Disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things have significant potential to improve supply chain resilience. These technologies can provide supply chains with greater visibility and transparency. Systematically reviewing previous studies and echoing the call, this research, which is developmental-applied, qualitative, and documentary regarding the purpose, nature of the data, and the methods of data and information collection tries to investigate the impact of the aforementioned disruptive technologies on the resilience of the defense supply chain with the method of meta-synthesizing the results. This method starts with the question and while searching the literature and evaluating the input, synthesizes the findings and reaches the reflection stage by presenting the results. In the first stage, the questions were asked based on the analysis of the synonyms. Then by searching the literature, evaluating the input, and synthesizing the findings, the results were obtained which indicate fact that the most important ways to improve the resilience of the supply chain through disruptive technologies include: "Prediction and risk management utilizing artificial intelligence algorithms", "increasing the transparency of blockchain as a distributed database", "improving performance and optimizing processes using artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things", and, "increasing the security of the supply chain network by blockchain". When integrated and applied to the supply chain, these technologies can significantly promote the resilience of supply chains.