Handbook for Supply Chain Risk Management: Case Studies, Effective Practices and Emerging Trends
- 4h 57m
- George A. Zsidisin (eds), Omera Khan
- J. Ross Publishing
- 2012
Failure to manage supply chain risk effectively can have a significant negative impact on an organization. Over 30 international contributing authors provide a set of best practices, processes, tools and techniques, supported by cases and illustrative examples, that can be adopted to proactively evaluate, manage, or mitigate risk in their supply chains and improve overall business performance.
Key Features:
- Offers comprehensive coverage of current and future supply chain disruptions and risks such as globalization, outsourcing, Lean initiatives, information security, economic downturns, natural disasters and political upheaval
- Includes a wide variety of cases from various industries demonstrating effective approaches that can be used for benchmarking, reducing the chance and financial impact of risk to a firm and its supply chains, and creating a more robust and resilient firm in the face of supply chain risk
- Highlights the identification and mapping of risks in global supply chains
- Provides managers with a set of best practices, processes, and tools and techniques that can be adopted to proactively evaluate, manage or mitigate risk in their supply chains and to improve overall business performance
About the Editors
Omera Khan is a Senior Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Logistics Institute, Hull University Business School where she has developed programs on logistics and supply chain management and teaches a number of other postgraduate and undergraduate courses. Omera has gained international recognition for her research and she has conducted several research projects on the topics of supply chain risk management, the impact of product design on the supply chain and the risks of global sourcing, which have been commissioned by government agencies, research councils and companies. She is a Visiting Professor at SP Jain Business School in Dubai and Singapore where she has developed and taught courses on supply chain risk management and resilience, agile supply chains, supply chain frameworks, and performance based logistics. Omera is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Boras in Sweden where she is coordinating research on demand chain management and leading the development of a center on demand chain risk management in textiles. She is a research affiliate at MIT and is collaborating on international research projects in the areas of product design and risk management.
George A. Zsidisin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Bowling Green State University. He has published over 40 articles in academic and practitioner journals, co-edited Supply Chain Risk: A Handbook of Assessment, Management, and Performance and has given numerous presentations to companies, groups, and conferences throughout North America and Europe. Professor Zsidisin is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals.
In this Book
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Introduction to Managing Risk in Global Supply Chains
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Current State of Risk Management in Global Sourcing
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The Supply Chain Risks of Global Sourcing
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Too Big for the Individual Firm: Creating Cooperative Networks to Solve Difficult Supply Chain Risk Challenges
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Developments in Organizational Performance Through Strategic Supply Chain Collaboration
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Performance-Based Logistics in Contingency Health Care Operations
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Risk Acceptance of GEEC Risk in Maritime Supply Chain Systems
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An Analysis of a Major Oil Spill Case in the Baltic Sea
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Political Risks in Contemporary Supply Chains: The Case of the Natural Gas Crisis
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Enerjisa: Managing Procurement Risks in the Turkish Energy Industry
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Introduction to Tools, Techniques, and Approaches
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Managing Supply Chain Risk in Financial Services
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A Comparative Study of Financial and Operational Measures in the Automotive Industry
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A Toolkit to Secure Supplies for Effective Supply Chain Risk Management in the Aircraft Construction Industry
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Using Information Technology to Mitigate Supply Network Risk
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Practical Approaches to Supply Chain Continuity: New Challenges and Timeless Principles
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Strategic Supply Management: The Litmus Test for Risk Management in a Three Echelon Supply Chain
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Assessing Project Risks within the Supply Chain of SELEX Sistemi Integrati (Finmeccanica)
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Estimation of Disruption Risk Exposure in Supply Chains: Three Cases
