Managing risks in supply chains - an article review and Appendix

Summary, in English

Background: A number of trends during the last decade, like globalisation, outsourcing, single sourcing, leanness and agility, have made the supply chain more vulnerable and “supply chain risk management” has become a research area of its own.

Objective: To characterize the existing scientific knowledge and scientific knowledge creation within supply chain risk management as it is presented in the literature.

Method: A literature review of scientific articles within supply chain risk management and a characterization of those articles, partly by the help of the basic reference data available for each article, partly with the help of a simple basic risk model.

Results: The research area is fairly new, the oldest article in the review is from 1998, but under expansion. Knowledge is today limited - only 22 scientific articles in English were found. Most articles focused the whole supply chain but some just two or three links in the chain. Five articles focused a certain industry, the others not. Supply risks were the most common type of risk studied followed by demand risk, terrorist attacks and natural disasters

• Author: Ulf Paulsson
• Editor: Jari Juga
• Department/s: Department of Business Administration
• Publishing year: 2003
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference for Nordic Researchers in Logistics NOFOMA 2003, 12-13 June, Oulu, Finland
• Links: http://www.tlog.lth.se/documents/publications/Managing%20risks.pdf;%20http://www.tlog.lth.se/documents/publications/Appendix.pdf
• Document type: Conference paper
• Publisher: NOFOMA
• Topic: Transport Systems and Logistics
• Keywords: Supply chain management; Disruptions; Disturbances; Vulnerability; Risk-handling; Risks; Supply chain; Supply chain risk management; Risk management
• Conference name: 15th Annual NOFOMA Conference, 2003
• Conference date: 2003-06-12 - 2003-06-13
• Conference place: Oulu, Finland
• Status: Published