Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability: Tools and Methods for Supply Chain Decision Makers

Book Overview

Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability, a book that both practitioners and students can use to better understand and manage supply chain risk, presents topics on decision making related to supply chain risk.

Leading academic researchers, as well as practitioners, have contributed chapters focusing on developing an overall understanding of risk and its relationship to supply chain performance; investigating the relationship between response time and disruption impact; assessing and prioritizing risks; and assessing supply chain resilience.

Supply chain managers will find Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability a useful tool box for methods they can employ to better mitigate and manage supply chain risk. On the academic side, the book can be used to teach senior undergraduate students, as well as graduate-level students. Additionally, researchers may use the text as a reference in the area of supply chain risk and vulnerability.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848826338
• ISBN13: 9781848826335
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"