The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the biggest and most widespread disruption onto global supply chain networks in recent memory. Although hazards and natural disasters occur more frequently, an unparalleled demand for supply chain networks to reconsider their resilience has been observed. Understanding how global companies manage their supply chain disruptions will help other companies adapt  their own responses. We carried out a study on 17 systematic literature reviews (SLR) that portrayed the state of the supply chain resilience (SCR) in the last 10 years and present the authors’ synthetized definitions, their associated elements and characteristics. The purpose of this paper is to draw an insight on how the definitions of the concept of resilience in the supply chain have evolved over time from a scientific community perspective, through answering our focused research questions, and providing direction for future research.