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Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability

Tools and Methods for Supply Chain Decision Makers

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  • © 2009

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  • Presents topics on the assessment, modelling and monitoring of supply chain risk

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Book Introduction

  2. Understanding and Assessing Risk in the Supply Chain

  3. Decision Making and Risk Mitigation in the Supply Chain

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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Industrial Engineering, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

    Teresa Wu

  • Department of Logistics, Operations and Management Information Studies, College of Business, Iowa State University, Ames, USA

    Jennifer Blackhurst

About the editors

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.

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