Supply Chain Risk Management

50 • Supply Chain Risk Management: An Emerging Discipline

see in supply chains. Most of us work within organizational or business

(i.e., nonphysical) processes such as fullling customer orders, develop-

ing new products or services, estimating customer demand, or evaluating

and selecting suppliers. Some refer to organizational processes as busi-

ness processes.

Organizational Work Teams. Whether we like it or not, the use of

teams is just about everywhere in supply chains and is a popular and grow-

ing organizational design option. A partial listing of teams and groups

involved with some aspect of supply chain management is as follows:

• Customer Advisory Board—An executive- level group that brings

suppliers, customers, and the original equ