From October 9th to 10^th, 2025, Tongji SEM hosted the international symposium “Emergency Supply Chain Management and Strategies for Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience Against External Risks”, which was organized by Tongji University and Technische Universität Berlin and supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education. Insightful academic presentations were delivered and in-depth discussions were held on related topics by professors, scholars and experts from institutions including Tongji University, Technische Universität Berlin, ETH Zurich, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Technische Universität Dresden, the University of Hamburg, the University of Hong Kong, Donghua University and the Ningbo Institute of Supply Chain Innovation in China. Over 200 participants attended in person or online.This conference, primarily from an enterprise perspective, centered around four key themes: “Emergency Supply Chain Management,” “Strategies and Methods for Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience,” “Supply Chain Sustainability,” and “Frontiers in Supply Chain Management Innovation.” The discussions explored a wide range of topics, including: Strategies for supplying emergency materials that balance public health and economic objectives；Hospital resilience metrics and bed resource planning strategies；Optimization of intercontinental multimodal transport systems within Eurasian freight networks amidst complex geopolitical risks；Supply chain countermeasures and strategies in the context of tariff wars；Three key mechanisms for optimizing operational decisions and enhancing supply chain resilience under demand uncertainty；Core drivers of logistics industry development and their relevance to risk management; Economic analysis of hydrogen supply chains for decarbonizing the steel industry; Key factors influencing consumer decision-making regarding participation in green e-commerce logistics; People-oriented scheduling optimization methods for building energy-efficient retrofits; Raw material price volatility and supply quality risks; Consumer “repair and replacement” behavior in response to product failures; Practical applications of operations research algorithms in industrial supply chain planning.

This conference report covered a variety of innovative research methodologies and significant findings, providing valuable solutions to help enterprises enhance the resilience of their supply chains. It presents novel strategies for companies to establish secure, environmentally friendly, and highly resilient supply chains.