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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… …logistics include reduced logistics investment, improved logistics performance and enhanced core competences of bu- siness. However, logistics outsourcing… …might also lead to some unwanted events and impacts, namely outsourcing risk, which has been increasingly concerned by the commissioners in their… …outsourcing decision. The risk issue has not been well addressed in previous studies and empirical evidences were few seen. Therefore, this study aims to… …construct a risk analysis model for logistics outsourcing, based on qualitative risk assessment. As with generic risk definition, the risk model consists… …of two important ele- ments, including the occurrence of unwanted events (failures) when outsourcing and the corresponding business losses. In the… …failures as well. In combination of these two risk ele- ments, contract-related events lead to 76.4% of the total outsourcing risk, whereas the remaining… …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… …ongoing outsourced activity. Keywords: Logistics Outsourcing, Risk Analysis, Analytic Network Process Ming-Chih Tsai; Shu-Chun Hung, and Chia-Shing…

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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… …services, as these are accompanied by an equally long chain of risks. The glob- alization of supply chains and the trends to outsourcing and offshore… …cheaper imports thus increasing competition for UK manufacturers. However, the potential instability arising from outsourcing to achieve cost savings can… …offshore and were outsourcing. By the end of the 1990’s M&S saw its sales plummet and this led to a significant management upheaval. This case examines how… …over-dependency is resolved by the firm managing its core competence rather than outsourcing it to suppliers. This significantly reduces the risk for a firm… …risk. Outsourcing and offshore manufacturing have further exacerbated the situation through longer lead times whilst facing increasing vola- tility in… …potential instability arising from outsourcing to achieve cost savings can actually create risks which may result in losses many times greater then the…

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  Complexity-Induced Supply Chain Risks – Interdependencies between Supply Chain Risk and Complexity Management

  Corinna Engelhardt-Nowitzki, Helmut E. Zsifkovits

  …high volatility and shortened market cycles are causing a growing amount of uncertainty. With longer supply chains (e.g. due to outsourcing) and… …well rateable (Forrester, 1961). With longer supply chains (e.g. due to outsourcing, Geimer, 2005, p. 38) and increasingly un- predictable demand and…
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  Supply Chain Risk Management: Development of a Theoretical and Empirical Framework

  Wolfgang Kersten, Mareike Böger, Philipp Hohrath, Hagen Späth

  …Globalisation of supply chains – Reduction of inventory holding – Centralised distribution – Reduction of the supplier base – Outsourcing – Centralised… …each company within that supply chain. E.g., globalisation leads to an increased geographical complexity in supply chains, while outsourcing and…
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  Integrated Performance – And Risk Management in Supply Chains – Basics and Methods

  Herwig Winkler, Bernd Kaluza

  …managing vertical supply relationships: a risk management mo- del for outsourcing, in: Supply Chain Management: An international Journal, 4(1999)4, S. 176 -…
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  An Empirical Investigation into Supply Chain Vulnerability Experienced by German Firms

  Stephan M. Wagner, Christoph Bode

  …either more efficient or responsive, for example, by means of outsourcing and offshoring large portions of manufacturing and R&D activities, sourcing in…