Research on measuring method of supply chain resilience based on biological cell elasticity theory

In supply chain management, it is easy to make the supply chain system vulnerable, lack of resilience and even disorderly if we simply emphasize lower costs and higher efficiency. The subject on how to strengthen the resilience of supply chain has attracted more and more scholars´ attention. However, relevant studies are mostly concentrated on qualitative analysis. In this paper, a quantitative measuring method, referring to stress relaxation time of material mechanics, was proposed based on the biological cell elasticity theory, which is helpful to the research of supply chain resilience in quantitative approach. Then the impact of different factors on supply chain resilience was discussed. The results are consistent with the realistic situation and indicate that the measuring model is reasonable and right under the assumed conditions.