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.

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