Mitigating reputational risks in supply chains

Mitigating Inefficiencies in Humanitarian Supply Chains

As disaster response becomes more complex, entities involved in humanitarian operations also increase in numbers and sophistication. Humanitarian actors are beginning to see the value that an efficient supply chain can bring. However, participating actors are faced with competition for funding and often do not cooperate with each other, which produces inefficient outcomes at the expenses of the...

Mitigating Supply Chain Risks (Adobe Acrobat)

Is your supply chain at risk of failure? Are your existing supply chain strategies increasing that risk? In 1995, an earthquake hit the port town of Kobe Japan, destroying 100,000 buildings and shutting down Japan’s largest port for 26 months. This great disaster forced 1,000s of firms to alter production, distribution, and inventory strategies just to survive. Procter and Gamble and Texas Inst...

Managing Disruption Risks in Supply Chains

T are two broad categories of risk affecting supply chain design and management: (1) risks arising from the problems of coordinating supply and demand, and (2) risks arising from disruptions to normal activities. This paper is concerned with the second category of risks, which may arise from natural disasters, from strikes and economic disruptions, and from acts of purposeful agents, including ...

Examining Operational Risks in Supply Chains

In an effort to offset the effects of increasing levels of global competition, demanding customers and employees, shrinking product lifecycles, and decreasing acceptable response times on success in the marketplace, many organizations have become members of formalized extended enterprises known as supply chains. These entities can be described as organizational networks designed to help firms a...

Managing bullwhip induced risks in supply chains