Supply Chain Risk Management: An Emerging Discipline

This book presents a risk management framework that will help readers position and conceptualize the topic of supply chain risk management. With this framework, practitioners will be able to reduce costs associated with risk, protect their brand and reputation, ensure positive financial outcomes, and begin to develop visible, predictable, resilient, and sustainable supply chains. The book provides access to a cloud-based, end-to-end supply chain risk assessment “Heat Map” which illustrates the maturity of the chain through the various stages.

Praise for the book:

The first ‘A-to-Z’ margin-based balanced risk assessment/performance guidebook to address our current and future global supply chain challenges!
–Jim de Vries: Enterprise Master Blackbelt: Corporate Initiatives – Air Products

Complete and comprehensive coverage of supply chain risk – from strategic to operational to probabilistic modeling and analytics … .
—Robert J. Vokurka, Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

… this book will give you valuable perspectives on supply chain vulnerabilities and how to deal with them.
—Cliff Reese, Management consultant and former global business leader

Robert Trent and Greg Schlegel have created a masterpiece for the risk practitioner.  … Best of all, the authors present a path forward that any organization can use to start or improve a program to manage the increasingly important world of supply chain risks.
—John J. Brown, P.E., ARM-E, Past President, Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council; Former Director, Risk Management, Supply Chain, and Technical, The Coca-Cola Company

The book is replete with examples of companies that have employed effective risk management techniques to gain a competitive edge. It should be required reading for any business seeking to accomplish the same.
—Karl F. Schmidt, Retired, VP Risk Mgmt, Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain; Engineering Fellow, Villanova University

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Supply Chain Risk Management : Setting the Stage
Chapter 2: Supply Chain Risk Management : The As-­Is Landscape
Chapter 3: Building the Risk Management Foundation
Chapter 4: Strategic Risk
Chapter 5: Hazard Risk
Chapter 6: Financial Risk
Chapter 7: Operational Risk
Chapter 8: Supply Chain Fraud, Corruption, Counterfeiting, and Theft
Chapter 9: Emerging Risk Management Frameworks for Success
Chapter 10: Using Probabilistic Models to Understand Risk
Chapter 11: Using Big Data and Analytics to Manage Risk
Chapter 12: Emerging Risk Management Tools, Techniques, and Approaches
Chapter 13: Risk Measurement
Chapter 14: Learning from Risk Management Leaders
Chapter 15: Future Directions in Supply Chain Risk Management

Appendix: The Supply Chain Risk Assessment Tool