Supply Chain Risk Management has emerged as an important source of competitive advantage and an effective method of reducing vulnerability in a supply chain. One vulnerability or risk that is often overlooked are product design changes to an already existing manufacturing process. That is the topic of  a recent article  by Yong Lin and Li Zhou titled The impacts of product design on supply chain risk: a case study. This a highly recommendable article for anyone thinking of studying risk management in supply chains.

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