Article ID: | iaor20082366 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 54 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 544 |
End Page Number: | 555 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2007 |
Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
Authors: | Chopra Sunil, Reinhardt Gilles, Mohan Usha |
Keywords: | supply & supply chains, risk |
This paper focuses on the importance of decoupling recurrent supply risk and disruption risk when planning appropriate mitigation strategies. We show that bundling the two uncertainties leads a manager to underutilize a reliable source while over-utilizing a cheaper but less reliable supplier. As in an earlier paper, we show that increasing quantity from a cheaper but less reliable source is an effective risk mitigation strategy if most of the supply risk growth comes from an increase in recurrent uncertainty. In contrast, we show that a firm should order more from a reliable source and less from a cheaper but less reliable source if most of the supply risk growth comes from an increase in disruption probability.