Managing disruption risks in supply chains

Managing disruption risks in supply chains

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Article ID: iaor20052912
Country: United States
Volume: 14
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 53
End Page Number: 68
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Journal: Production and Operations Management
Authors: ,
Keywords: risk
Abstract:

There are two broad categories of risk affecting supply chain design and management: (1) risks arising from the problems of coordinating supply and demand, and (2) risks arising from disruptions to normal activities. This paper is concerned with the second category of risks, which may arise from natural disasters, from strikes and economic disruptions, and from acts of purposeful agents, including terrorists. The paper provides a conceptual framework that reflects the joint activities of risk assessment and risk mitigation that are fundamental to disruption risk management in supply chains. We then consider empirical results from a rich data set covering the period 1995–2000 on accidents in the US Chemical Industry. Based on these results and other literature, we discuss the implications for the design of management systems intended to cope with supply chain disruption risks.

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