Sources of supply chain disruptions, factors that breed vulnerability, and mitigating strategies

KE Stecke, S Kumar - Journal of Marketing Channels, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The focus of business toward increasing efficiency and reducing costs has resulted in supply
chains that are efficient during normal times, but at the cost of being vulnerable to …

Selecting a portfolio of suppliers under demand and supply risks

A Federgruen, N Yang - Operations research, 2008 - pubsonline.informs.org
We analyze a planning model for a firm or public organization that needs to cover uncertain
demand for a given item by procuring supplies from multiple sources. Each source faces a …

Infinite-horizon models for inventory control under yield uncertainty and disruptions

AJ Schmitt, LV Snyder - Computers & Operations Research, 2012 - Elsevier
We consider a firm facing supply chain risk in two forms: disruptions and yield uncertainty.
We demonstrate the importance of analyzing a sufficiently long time horizon when modeling …

A supply chain design model with unreliable supply

L Qi, ZJM Shen - Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Uncertainties abound within a supply chain and have big impacts on its performance. We
propose an integrated model for a three‐tiered supply chain network with one supplier, one …

[图书][B] Risk management in supply chains

S Kumar - 2009 - search.proquest.com
Many supply chain models and studies have been designed for a certain world. In reality,
uncertainty caused by disruptions and their consequences have underlined the need for …

[图书][B] The effect of supply uncertainty on supply chain design decisions

L Qi - 2006 - search.proquest.com
There are two common types of supply uncertainties: the random yield of supply due to
capacity and quality issues, and the disruption of supply caused by low likelihood events …

[图书][B] Supply risks in supply chain management

N Yang - 2007 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation addresses a number of fundamental risk factors regarding the supply
mechanisms in general supply chains. Typically, two principal types of uncertainty pertain to …

[引用][C] Strategic inventory management for supply chains subject to supply uncertainty

AJ Schmitt - 2008 - ProQuest