How to spot -- and help -- an at-risk supplier

Subtitle: Current economic realities make one thing clear: today's business continuity needs cannot be met by using yesterday's risk-management approaches. That's especially true when it comes to your suppliers, who should they falter have the potential for derailing your operations. Supply chain managers need new mechanisms to spot "at-risk" suppliers -- and proven processes for intervening to reduce the impact of those suppliers' problems.

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• Authors:
  • FINLEY, FOSTER
• Publication Date: 2009-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Illustrations;
• Pagination: p. 18-25 : ill.
• Serial:
  • Supply Chain Management Review
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Reed Business Information
  • ISSN: 1521-9747
  • Serial URL: http://www.manufactoring.net/scm/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Logistics; Procurement; Risk management
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01140136
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Northwestern University Transportation Library
• Files: TLIB
• Created Date: Sep 18 2009 7:56AM