Supply Chain Risk Management

6 • Supply Chain Risk Management: An Emerging Discipline

ocer is also the company’s general auditor. At other companies the chief

risk ocer may be the chief nancial ocer (CFO). And at some compa-

nies the chief risk ocer may be part of the insurance group.

Defining Supply Chain Risk Management

Now that we have a working knowledge of ERM, what is supply chain

risk management (SCRM)? e denition partly reects someone’s

professional discipline or where they reside in the supply chain. In the

information technology space, the National Institute for Standards and

Technology denes supply chain risk management as a “multidisciplinary

practice ...