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

Teresa Wu

ISBN 10: 1848826338 / ISBN 13: 9781848826335

Published by Springer London, 2009

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability : Tools and Methods for Supply Chain Decision Makers
• Publisher: Springer London
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848826338
• ISBN 13: 9781848826335
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 243W x 164H x 25D millimeters 243 millimeters width by 164 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 505 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Teresa Wu is an associate professor at Arizona State University, USA. Her research interests are Supply Chain Management (Supplier Evaluation); Collaborative Product Development; Distributed Decision Making; and Distributed Information System Development. She has industrial experience from three years spent with the Beijing Aviation Simulator Co. as a software engineer and system administrator. Teresa Wu was given the Nationa Science Foundation CAREER award (2003-2008).

Jennifer Blackhurst, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the College of Business at Iowa State University. She received her doctorate in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iowa in 2002. Her research interests include: Supply Chain Risk and Disruption; Supply Chain Coordination; and Supplier Assessment and Selection. Her publications have appeared or been accepted in such journals as Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, International Journal of Production Research, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. She is a member of POMS and DSI.