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Supply Chain Risk Management
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Supply Chain Risk Management

by Gregory L. Schlegel, Robert J. Trent
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
334 pages
9h 59m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Supply Chain Risk Management
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Financial Risk
If we listen to the “experts,” we might be tempted to believe that anything
that is not strategic to a business must be outsourced. Aer all, relying on
third- party specialists to support the noncore parts of your supply chain
is surely better than not relying on specialists. Specialists bring knowledge
and skills that are dicult to match internally, skills that should result in
lower costs and reduced risk. What could possibly be wrong with that logic?
at is probably what a U.S. manufacturer was thinking when it decided
to outsource its freight payments to a third- party payment vendor. Freight
payment is the process of ...
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