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SCRM Research Gaps

Supply Chain Risk Management is a area that has seen a significant growth in recent years. However, there is diverse perception of research in supply chain risk because these researchers have approached this area from different domains. A recent article on Researchers’ Perspectives on Supply Chain Risk Management, written by Manmohan S Sodhi, Byung-Gak Son and Christopher S Tang, presents a study of this diversity from the perspectives of operations and supply chain management scholars. In their study they identify three gaps: a definition gap, a process gap and a methodology gap, and they suggest how these gaps can be closed.

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Mitigating supply chain disruptions

How could I have missed this paper? I was preparing my 2009-lecture on supply chain risk for tomorrow and while looking for some YouTube videos on supply chain risk to spice up my 3-hour presentation, I came across a short snippet featuring Christopher Tang from UCLA, who was talking about three strategies for building a robust supply chain, related to (1) supply, (2) product, and (3) demand. The video does not refer to it, but fascinated as I was, I did some more digging and came up with his 2006 paper Robust strategies for mitigating supply chain disruptions, which list not three, but nine strategies. Continue reading