Intelligent Manufacturing and Enterprise Supply Chain Configuration Diversification
Strengthening supply chain resilience and safety level,and promoting the diversification of the supply chain are of great significance to the construction of China's modern supply chain system and the high-quality development of enterprises.This paper takes China's intelligent manufacturing pilot demonstration special action as a quasi-natural experiment to investigate the impact of intelli-gent manufacturing policies on the supply chain configuration of enterprises by using the data of lis-ted companies from 2010 to 2022.The study finds that intelligent manufacturing can significantly promote the diversification of enterprise supply chain configuration by reducing the communication cost and supply chain management cost of upstream and downstream enterprises and improving the operational efficiency of enterprises.Heterogeneity analysis finds that the promotion effect of intel-ligent manufacturing is stronger in high-tech,non-state-owned enterprises,and when the marketi-zation level is low and the economic policy uncertainty is high.The expansion test shows that the geographical distance between enterprises and customers/suppliers strengthens the positive role of intelligent manufacturing in adjusting supply chain configuration.Intelligent manufacturing promotes the diversification of supply chain configuration and further improves the total factor pro-ductivity of enterprises.The intelligent manufacturing pilot policy also has an industry spillover effect,and the more pilot enterprises there are,the more significant the promotion effect is.This paper provides a theoretical reference for the comprehensive implementation of intelligent manufac-turing policy in China and the diversified development of supply chain configuration.