Supply Chain Resilience in the Era of the Vulnerable Contemporary Economy

One of the main functions of the supply chain involves monitoring the flow of goods and data from raw materials all the way to the customer, using human resources, processes, and new technologies, with the aim of minimizing costs, improving logistics services, and ensuring resilience. Resilience is built, maintained, and implemented. Unpredictable situations and periods of fluctuation (ups and downs) can occur at any point in the supply chain, and the entire operation is affected by them. Thus, market volatility in the supply chain is influenced by unpredictable and rapid fluctuations in demand, supply, or prices, caused in part by increasingly frequent economic changes, shifting customer preferences, disruptive events, and armed conflicts between major powers. All of these factors combined create uncertainty and increase both operational risk and the difficulty of effectively planning the flow of goods. This paper consists of a study that uses both a theoretical and analytical framework to examine the development and resilience of supply chains under pressure from current economic conditions, as well as their vulnerability in the current economic climate. The research method is based on a descriptive and analytical analysis.