Book Review: Supply Chain Risk Management

This excellent book by Donald Waters, Supply Chain Risk Management: Vulnerability and Resilience in Logistics, offers a comprehensive overview of many important issues in managing supply chain risk. More than 15 case studies and a straightforward hands-on practical approach make this book an enjoyable read. I bought this book as a text book, and as such it does a great job. It is perhaps not so well suited for the academically inclined, or for researching supply chain risk, or perhaps it is indeed, as it lets you not forget the real world and its real problems.

Who should read this book?

This book is written with the manager in mind, and is interspersed with examples from real life, along with calculations and illustrations that explain the concept in a manner that is practical and easy to follow even if you know nothing about supply chain management theory, common sense is all it takes. I highly recommend this book for anybody who wishes to learn the principles of supply chain risk management and put them into practice in one’s own business. Worth the price? YES!

An alternative

For the academically inclined, I suggest  Supply Chain Risk by George Zsidisin and Bob Ritchie or Supply Chain Risk by Claire Brindley, two books that have become indispensable to me.

Author link

• henley.reading.ac.uk: Donald Waters

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