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Navigate a continually evolving global risk landscape and react to new logistical challenges effectively with this vital guide on supply chain risk. Implementing robust supply chain strategies has never been so essential in today's everchanging world. From geo-political risks to the continued effects of global crises, Supply Chain Risk Management is an essential resource for those wanting to mitigate risk and ensure supply chain resilience. Offering crucial insight from a management perspective, this updated 4th edition offers new guidance on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, supply-chain bottlenecks and evolving geo-political risks. With new global case studies including disruption to the supply chain due to the Suez Canal blockage and global tensions like the US-China trade war, this edition explores a variety of real-world risks. This book details ongoing threats like climate change, corruption and technological risks while providing crucial detail on how to implement robust systems and safeguard supply chain operations. Combining theoretical and practical learning, Supply Chain Risk Management is essential for those needing to understand risk and how it can be approached.
List of contents
Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - ONE: Building a resilient supply chain; Chapter - 01: A framework for understanding risk; Chapter - 02: Engineering supply chain resilience; Chapter - 03: Contagion and logistics networks; Chapter - 04: Lessons from the Covid crisis; Section - TWO: Industry sector risk; Chapter - 05: Industry sector resilience to supply chain threats; Chapter - 06: Automotive supply chains; Chapter - 07: High-tech supply chains; Chapter - 08: Consumer goods supply chains; Chapter - 09: Food supply chain vulnerability; Chapter - 10: Evolving risk in pharmaceutical supply chains; Chapter - 11: Fashion supply chains; Section - THREE: Supply chains' interaction with the natural world; Chapter - 12: Natural disasters; Chapter - 13: Climate change and emissions policy; Chapter - 14: Environmental impact of global value chains; Section - FOUR: Economic, societal and political risks; Chapter - 15: Economic risks to the supply chain; Chapter - 16: Societal risks to supply chains; Chapter - 17: Political risks in international supply chains; Section - FIVE: Security and cyber threats; Chapter - 18: Corruption and bribery in international logistics; Chapter - 19: Cargo crime and piracy; Chapter - 20: Corruption in public procurement, defence and humanitarian logistics; Chapter - 21: Terrorism and security; Chapter - 22: Cyber threats to supply chains; Chapter - 23: Illicit supply chains; Chapter - 24: Conclusion; Chapter - 25: References;
About the author
John Manners-Bell is the CEO of Transport Intelligence, a leading supplier of market solutions to the global logistics industry. He is also Visiting Professor at the London Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University.
John Manners-Bell started his working life as an operations manager in a freight forwarding and road haulage company based in the UK. Prior to establishing Transport Intelligence, he worked as an analyst in consultancies specialising in international trade, transport and logistics. He also spent a number of years as European marketing manager for UPS Supply Chain Solutions working at locations across Europe, including France, Netherlands and Germany.
He holds an MSc in Transport Planning and Management from the University of Westminster, a BA (Hons) in Classics from King's College London where he was also awarded an Associateship (AKC). John Manners-Bell is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and former Chair of the Supply Chain, Logistics Global Advisory Council of the World Economic Forum, and a Freeman of the City of London.
