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The COVID-19 pandemic recalled the strategic nature of logistics and supply chain management (SCM) for all sectors of activity. It also stressed the importance of having robust and resilient supply chains (SCs). The article begins by demonstrating why COVID-19 justifies the need to link robustness and resilience better than any previous crisis. It then explains, in the light of the literature, why it is not so simple to think about and to develop jointly robustness and resilience. The illustrations from the COVID-19 crisis provide answers that lead to the proposal of a framework for moving forward from controversy to a dialogic approach. The conclusion discusses the theoretical and managerial contributions and opens up avenues for research and reflection that go beyond logistics and SCM.