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  A Tool for Assessing Product Non-Compliance Risks in Supply Chains

  Alex Martin, Kieren Mayers, Chris France

  …149 A Tool for Assessing Product Non-Compliance Risks in Supply Chains Alex Martin, Kieren Mayers, and Chris France Abstract Products for… …regulations poses management challenges for producers, which become greater when the regulations apply at the material level and the risks of product non-com-… …FMEA was adapted and u- sed for assessing the risks of product non-compliance with substance use restric- tions in the case of a European electronics… …the producer’s supply chain. It is suggested that the worksheet, terms of reference and rating scales developed in adapting FMEA provide a basis for… …1 Introduction Products for consumer and industrial use within Europe must comply with national safety and environmental regulations. In many… …Equipment and Toy Safety Directives. Alex Martin, Kieren Mayers, and Chris France 150 For producers1, the necessity of assuring their products comply… …regulations poses challenges for producers: knowing what to comply with, deciding on suitable con- trols, and ensuring the implementation of controls. Such… …challenges become greater for producers when regulations apply at the material level since this extends their exposure to product non-compliance risks to… …existing systems of management (e.g. for product safety, quality or environmental management), but no system can guarantee all products will comply all of… …and prioritising the risks of product non- compliance occurring. This paper discusses the selection, adaptation and use of a risk assessment tool for…

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  Identification of Key Risk Factors for Logistics Outsourcing - A Case of Retailing Industry in Taiwan

  Ming-Chih Tsai, Shu-Chun Hung, Chia-Shing Han

  …179 Identification of Key Risk Factors for Logistics Outsourcing - A Case of Retailing Industry in Taiwan Ming-Chih Tsai, Shu-Chun Hung, and… …Chia-Shing Han Abstract Logistics outsourcing has become a broad business solution for competitiveness. The benefits of being associated with third party… …construct a risk analysis model for logistics outsourcing, based on qualitative risk assessment. As with generic risk definition, the risk model consists… …retailing chains were chosen as case study for analysis. Principle risk factors associated with varied outsourced activities were ca- librated by analytical… …network process (ANP). The analysis results indicate that the probability of contract-related failures (e.g. poor implementation, delay of time) is far… …higher than that of organizational assets and market competition events, and the impact of contracted-related events is far higher than the other two… …two events account for 20.2% and 3.4%, respectively. The risk analy- sis information can be used to justify outsourcing decision and mitigate the… …Han 180 1 Introduction Logistics outsourcing has become a broad business solution for competitiveness (Boyson et al., 1999; Laarhoven, Berglund… …outsourc- ing risk phenomenon justifies the exploratory nature of this study. Consequently, this study aims to construct a risk analysis model for logistics… …transportation operations in Taiwan were chosen as empirical case study for analysis, including 3C (Computer, Com- Key Risk Factors for Logistics Outsourcing -…

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  Risk Management for Agent Based Autonomous Logistic Objects

  Boris Bemeleit, Martin Lorenz, Jens Schumacher, Otthein Herzog

  …227 Risk Management for Agent Based Autonomous Logistic Objects Boris Bemeleit, Martin Lorenz, Jens Schumacher, and Otthein Herzog Abstract… …opportunities of using risk management by agent based technology for realizing robustness of au- tonomous control in the domain of logistics. 1 Introduction… …requirements for the man- agement of logistic systems and processes. The higher amount and the reduction of the size of goods that have to be transported and as… …a consequence thereof an in- creasing number of transports are main reasons for a relative shortage of logistic in- frastructure and lead also to… …very difficult to provide all information necessary for a central planning and control in- stance in time during the planning phase and react on… …entities which have the ability and ca- pabilities for decentralised coordination. The complexity of logistic systems is a compound measure of various (de-… …but subsuming Bar-Yams properties under those two. Modern logistic systems qualify for being complex systems in that sense. The dynamic of a logistic… …embedded entities of the system is a representative factor for measuring the dy- namic of the logistic system and is as important for tasks of planning and… …degree of needed information for the suc- cessful management and more effective planning and control mechanism for the lo- gistic processes. The… …: Risk Management for Agent Based Autonomous Logistic Objects 229 Figure 1: Technologies and their effects The usage of these novel ICT’s allows the…

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  Design Risk Management: A New Framework for Managing Supply Chain Risk

  Omera Khan

  …253 Design Risk Management: A New Framework for Managing Supply Chain Risk Omera Khan Abstract Outsourcing, off-shore manufacturing and the… …chain management are the recipe for success, design has become an increasingly important capability for a firm which must be factored in to the supply… …supply chain risk profile and argue the importance of design risk management for mitigating supply chain risk. Keywords: Risk, Supply Chain Risk… …outsource and offshore to low labour cost economies as demands from retailers for lower prices puts margins under pressure. Furthermore, the end of quotas… …communities such as globalisation highlight the need for much higher levels of supply chain re- sponsiveness and a more co-ordinated network of suppliers to… …framework for managing supply chain risk and to highlight and further our understanding of the importance of design in supply chain risk management. The… …manufacturing in the search for lower costs have paradoxically exposed businesses to new sources of risk. For example, the abolishment of the Multi Fibre… …cheaper imports thus increasing competition for UK manufacturers. However, the potential instability arising from outsourcing to achieve cost savings can… …consequences. We argue that companies need to develop a better un- derstanding of risks in their extended network and how to manage them. A key is- sue for… …Risk Management: A New Framework for Managing Supply Chain Risk 255 2.1 Importance of Design in Supply Chain Risk Design is an essential process for…

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  The Marketing Mix in the Brazilian Maritime Transportation Market for Liner Shipping: A Multicase Study

  Fernando Ribeiro dos Santos, L�o Tadeu Robles, Marisa Nobre

  …267 The Marketing Mix in the Brazilian Maritime Transportation Market for Liner Shipping: A Multicase Study Fernando Ribeiro dos Santos, Léo… …port and in 2005 it handled 2,267,921 TEUs, almost 38% of Brazilian total TEUs movement. The Santos Port itself was responsible for more than the total… …movement of the other three bigger Brazilian ports for TEUs traffic. In Brazil, as in other countries, the maritime transportation tends to be more and… …more specialized and it can be considered as a dynamic element for economic development, what enhances the shipping liner companies importance both for… …high aggregated value merchan- dises and for new ways for packaging and facilitating cargo handling. This is re- markable, when ocean liner carriers role… …study limitation was the gathering data difficulty, mainly due to industry high competitiveness and data confidentiality worries, specially, as far as… …run contracts for their greater volume clients. The smaller volume clients are represented by freight forwarder companies or NVOCCs (Non Vessel… …conclusions point to a very important and changing environment in an industry considered as critical for the Brazilian efforts in order to reach a competi-… …Introduction Following the significant increase in the volume of container cargo transport in the Santos Port; increased port terminal capacity for docking… …development; the growing importance of international shipping companies in transporting added value goods for Brazilian foreign trade; and the need to…

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  Supply Chain Risk Management: Development of a Theoretical and Empirical Framework

  Wolfgang Kersten, Mareike Böger, Philipp Hohrath, Hagen Späth

  …sources and the drivers of supply chain risk are examined. Second, a framework for Supply Chain Risk Management is de- veloped which uses theoretical as… …complexity and vice versa, a need for coordination emerges which goes beyond the simple integration of both concepts into the supply chain management… …methods and instruments. 2 Supply Chain Risk In the literature, the definitions of the term “risk” as well as the instruments that are used for risk… …their subjective value (Arrow, 1965). In this case, variance is an instrument for risk measurement that allows quantifying the deviation from an… …shows the results of this survey for manufacturing companies and logistics service providers. The risks of the two internal sources “process” and… …groups. In recent years, the composition of the risk portfolio changed for most com- panies due to new market conditions. Besides “traditional” risks… …Eltantawy, 2004). The Cranfield School of Management identified the following drivers as causes for the emergence of the- se new risks (Jüttner, 2005): –… …larger risk portfolio for all companies of this supply chain. However, com- panies are often unable to react to this part of their risk portfolio, because… …the importance of this cooperation for the company performance is growing continu- ously, the vulnerability of the whole supply chain and individual… …context. Hence, due to measures of a single company, the risk portfolio changes and risk might increase for all companies in the supply chain. The risk…

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  Reliability Improvement in Supply Chain Design under Demand and Supply Uncertainties

  Ilham Kissani

  …ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time (IEEE 90). Good re- liability… …Verter (2001), Martel (2001) and Martel (1999) include in their models the capacity acquisition and the technology selection for global designing of… …those conditions, supply chains should not only be efficient for the expected conditions but should also have a robust performance in future… …concepts. Section 3 provides the relevant details of the pro- posed model. 2 Modeling Concepts In this paper, we use an integrated methodology for… …variability. For these purposes the following considerations are taken into concern for the prob- lem modeling: – As the volume of demand and supply is… …reason of using of different layouts and capacity options for the network sites. In fact, for the problem model- ing, we take into account different… …possibilities of sites’ configuration, al- lowing for the selection of the suitable layouts and capacity options to im- plement in each site, with minimizing… …and operational costs. – The proposed approach consists also of selecting reliable suppliers in terms of their sourcing reliability. For the… …suppliers’ selection we use a technique of reliability evaluation, the data needed is the probability distribution of the sourcing volume for each supplier… …the already measured suppliers’ sourcing reliability. In fact, for manufacturing firms, supply shortage is a common risk related to sourcing, and the…

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  An Empirical Investigation into Supply Chain Vulnerability Experienced by German Firms

  Stephan M. Wagner, Christoph Bode

  …susceptible to the risks in the business environment. Some authors go so far to say that modern supply chain management initiatives are powerful concepts for… …catastrophic events that impacted economies and supply chains around the globe in the last years. Gi- ven the increasing awareness for this important topic, the… …, are relevant for a firm’s exposure to supply chain risk. Overall, this research constitutes the first large-scale investigation and provides a more… …The recent memorable crises and catastrophes and their impact on supply chains have shaken up academics and practitioners for supply chain risk… …, 2003; Hendricks & Singhal, 2003, 2005a, 2005b; Finch, 2004). The- se reports come along with proposals for best practices, guidelines and concepts for… …either more efficient or responsive, for example, by means of outsourcing and offshoring large portions of manufacturing and R&D activities, sourcing in… …, there is no empirical evidence for this assertion. In general, the current knowledge about the vulnerability of supply chains and the impact of… …in a way that they are in line with the firms’ willing- ness to take risks. For example, if a single sourcing strategy supports a firm in tak- ing… …Demand side risk Supply side risk Catastrophic risk Drivers for Supply Chain Vulnerability Supply Chain Risk Customer dependence Supplier dependence… …Supplier concentration Single sourcing Global sourcing Demand side risk Supply side risk Catastrophic risk Drivers for Supply Chain Vulnerability Supply…

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  Enterprise and Supply Risk Management from the Perspective of Internal and External Auditors

  Michael Henke, Reiner Kurzhals, Christopher Jahns

  …rates for o- ther empirical studies on Risk Management´(Cp. Wildemann, 2006, p. 19). Fur- thermore, it must be noted that this study on Supply Risk… …Jahns Abstract Our goal is to specialize and operationalize ERM for Supply Management as it continues to gain importance. Therefore, the basic concepts… …essential functions and institutions of Supply Risk Management. As a result, this will determine if and how the ERM framework is to be utilized for Supply… …of ERM. 1 Nature and relevance of the problems: Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) as a starting point for the further development of an integrated… …importance is further exemplified by the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002” (SOA): “COSO’s framework may become an important tool for imple- menting the directives… …companies to proactively manage supply risk.” (Zsidisin et al., 2005, p. 52) To demonstrate the necessity for the development of new solutions for Supply… …Risk Management an example from company practice should be mentioned: last year DaimlerChrysler had to stop its production for diesel vehicles for 18… …DaimlerChrysler had to face a collapse in sales because the vehicles were not being delivered to the customers. Daimler claimed that Bosch, as the supplier for… …diesel fuel injectors, was respon- sible for the losses of the production stop. Bosch on its own stated that the company did not commit any mistakes in… …the production process and made its American sup- plier Federal Mogul responsible for delivering sockets with defective coatings for the fuel injector…

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  Evaluation of Transportation Network Reliability in Incidents

  Afshin Shariat Mohaimani, Poria Mohammadian, Navid Kalantari

  …: Transportation network reliability is one of the most important issues for transport network providers; they favor a network that always provides high… …based on their accessibility reliability. This measure could be used for decision making in routing problems. Keywords: Network Reliability, Decision… …times in the network, general cost, reliability, accessibility and etc. some of these perform- ance measures could be combined together; for example the… …researchers, so- me of these definitions are as follows; the potential of opportunities for interaction (Hansen, 1959), the ease with which any land-use… …for employment accessibility evaluation. The general form of these measures is as equation (2): ¦ t ti OA (2) In this equation Ot is the… …models have some serious disadvantages; they have no behavioral dimen- sion, near and far opportunities are treated equally, they are very sensitive to the… …included in the model. Gravity models have been used for accessibility evaluation by many research- ers. A lot of gravity type accessibility model have… …mean that for each individual, n, accessibility is equal to the maximum ex- pected value of destination i in the choice set C. These models have no… …background. Six basic types of these measures have been illustrated by Kwan et al. (2003)[5]. 3 Developing an Accessibility Measure for Commodity… …from s to k. for our propose the attraction of each destination k is expressed as its potential market for each commodity m pro- duced in s as mskM…

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