Failure to manage supply chain risk effectively can have a significant negative impact on an organization. Over 30 international contributing authors provide a set of best practices, processes, tools and techniques, supported by cases and illustrative examples, that can be adopted to proactively evaluate, manage, or mitigate risk in their supply chains and improve overall business performance.
Omera Khan is a Senior Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Logistics Institute, Hull University Business School, where she has developed programs on logistics and supply chain management and teaches a number of other postgraduate and undergraduate courses. Omera has gained international recognition for her research and she has conducted several research projects on the topics of supply chain risk management, the impact of product design on the supply chain and the risks of global sourcing, which have been commissioned by government agencies, research councils and companies. She is a Visiting Professor at SP Jain Business School in Dubai and Singapore, where she has developed and taught courses on supply chain risk management & resilience, agile supply chains, supply chain frameworks, and performance based logistics. Omera is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Boras in Sweden where she is coordinating research on demand chain management and leading the development of a center on demand chain risk management in textiles. She is a research affiliate at MIT where she is collaborating on international research projects in the area of product design and risk management. George A. Zsidisin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Bowling Green State University. He has published over 40 articles in academic and practitioner journals, co-edited Supply Chain Risk: A Handbook of Assessment, Management, and Performance and has given numerous presentations to companies, groups, and conferences throughout North America and Europe. Professor Zsidisin is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals.
About the International Supply Chain Risk Management Network (ISCRiM) IntroductionPart I: Managing Risk in Global Supply ChainsChapter 1: Introduction to Managing Risk in Global Supply ChainsChapter 2: Current State of Risk Management in Global SourcingChapter 3: The Supply Chain Risks of Global SourcingChapter 4: Too Big for the Individual Firm: Creating Cooperative Networks to Solve Difficult Supply Chain Risk ChallengesChapter 5: Developments in Organizational Performance Through Strategic Supply Chain CollaborationChapter 6: Performance-Based Logistics in Contingency Health Care OperationsChapter 7: Risk Acceptance of GEEC Risk in Maritime Supply Chain SystemsChapter 8: An Analysis of a Major Oil Spill Case in the Baltic SeaChapter 9: Political Risks in Contemporary Supply Chains: The Case of the Natural Gas CrisisChapter 10: Enegrisa: Managing Procurement Risks in the Turkish Energy IndustryPart II: Tools, Techniques, and ApproachesChapter 11: Introduction to Tools, Techniques, and ApproachesChapter 12: Managing Supply Chain Risk in Financial ServicesChapter 13: A Comparative Study of Financial and Operational Measures in the Automotive IndustryChapter 14: A Toolkit to Secure Supplies for Effective Supply Chain Risk Management in the Aircraft Construction IndustryChapter 15: Using Information Technology to Mitigate Supply Network RiskChapter 16: Practical Approaches to Supply Chain Continuity: New Challenges and Timeless PrinciplesChapter 17: Strategic Supply Management: The Litmus Test for Risk Management in a Three-Echelon Supply ChainChapter 18: Assessing Project Risks within the Supply Chain of SELEX Sistemi Integrati (Finmeccanica) Chapter 19: Estimation of Disruption Risk Exposure in Supply Chains: Three CasesIndex
