Managing Supply Chain Risk

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Preface

Managing supply chain risks is emerging as a viable, proactive, and strate-

gic supply chain management (SCM) application. is book’s focus is on

the structure, implementation, and maintenance of a formal system for

managing risks in the supply chain. A common theme is that the decision

to manage supply chain risks constitutes a major undertaking for most

rms. Such an undertaking, it is argued, does not take place in a vacuum.

Rather, it is a response to a number of factors or inuences. However, no

book to date has empirically identied these factors and explained how

they can be leveraged into a competitive advantage. In this book, ...