scholarly journals Port-related conflict at port of Gothenburg – consequences from a fashion retailer’s perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Lindroth ◽  
Hà Huong ◽  
Rickard Bergqvist
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Supply Chain Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain Risk ◽  
Supply Chain Disruptions ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Short Product

AbstractPrevious research have distinguished the risks of supply chain disruptions and the negative effect of supply chain disruption on operational performance in terms of sales, costs and inventory. However, few researchers have studied supply chain risk management and strategies in relation to port conflicts. The 2016 port conflict at a major logistics port in Scandinavia, the Port of Gothenburg, posed an opportunity to study risk management and strategies in the context of major port disruptions, in this case, a labour conflict. The fashion retail industry was affected especially hard due to the short product life cycles and this paper, by means of case study method and analysis, investigates five cases in order to understand how they were affected and what mitigation strategies was used. Results illustrates that during the port conflict, the percentage of increase in logistics cost ranged between 15% and 70%, greatly affected by what mitigation strategy was used by the case company.

Strategic action grids: a study on supply chain risk management in manufacturing industries in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 3045-3061 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Viswanath Shenoi ◽  
T.N. Srikantha Dath ◽  
C. Rajendran ◽  
P. Shahabudeen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Supply Chain Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain Risk ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Robust Supply Chain

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide strategic recommendations to supply chain managers of Indian manufacturing industries for a robust supply chain related to risk management by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers in manufacturing industries to ensure a robust supply chain risk management (SCRM). Design/methodology/approach Importance-performance analysis (IPA) is utilized to identify and provide strategic recommendations to manufacturing industries for improving their supply chain performance by attaching due importance to risk constructs and appropriately choosing mitigation strategies. Findings The investigation using the strategic action grids reveals that most of the means of risks are near the point of intersection of the grand means of the risk constructs and their impact on the supply chain, indicating that all the risks have the equal likelihood of occurrence. The mean importance of risk monitoring, risk avoidance (RA) and risk sharing surpass the mean performance for both OEMs and suppliers. Research limitations/implications The study is executed with following limitations: the study assumes that the manufacturing industries across different sectors perceive similar risk. The sectors considered are automotive, heavy engineering, general engineering and home appliances. The Southern States of India are considered because of the dominant presence of many industries, especially automotive industries. However, it should be noted that these States form the manufacturing hubs where the lead organizations are functioning along with their major suppliers. Practical implications By understanding the importance of SCRM dimensions and utilization of these dimensions, firms can mitigate the impact of risk on the supply chain. The detailed study of SCRM strategies highlights the importance attached to risk factors, mitigation strategies, and top management commitment. By the implementation of SCRM strategies, supply chain managers can improve the firm’s performance. Originality/value The study involves empirically validated data on SCRM dimensions. The IPA is performed on the SCRM dimensions to investigate the importance attached to the factors of the dimensions and their performance.

scholarly journals Reverse logistics risk management: identification, clustering and risk mitigation strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 1449-1474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamidreza Panjehfouladgaran ◽  
Stanley Frederick W.T. Lim
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Reverse Logistics ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Supply Chain Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain Risk ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Risk Mitigation Strategies

PurposeReverse logistics (RL), an inseparable aspect of supply chain management, returns used products to recovery processes with the aim of reducing waste generation. Enterprises, however, seem reluctant to apply RL due to various types of risks which are perceived as posing an economic threat to businesses. This paper draws on a synthesis of supply chain and risk management literature to identify and cluster RL risk factors and to recommend risk mitigation strategies for reducing the negative impact of risks on RL implementation.Design/methodology/approachThe authors identify and cluster risk factors in RL by using risk management theory. Experts in RL and supply chain risk management validated the risk factors via a questionnaire. An unsupervised data mining method, self-organising map, is utilised to cluster RL risk factors into homogeneous categories.FindingsA total of 41 risk factors in the context of RL were identified and clustered into three different groups: strategic, tactical and operational. Risk mitigation strategies are recommended to mitigate the RL risk factors by drawing on supply chain risk management approaches.Originality/valueThis paper studies risks in RL and recommends risk management strategies to control and mitigate risk factors to implement RL successfully.

Supply Chain Risk Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 176-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehsan Nikbakhsh
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Supply Chain Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain Risk ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Risk Mitigation Strategies

During the past two decades, environments surrounding supply chains (SC) have faced many changes, which require SC managers to deal proactively with unknown situations and new risks. Therefore, one of the most important issues in supply chain management is managing uncertainties of a SC and mitigating negative effects of SC risks. In this chapter, an overview of supply chain risk management (SCRM) is given. First, fundamental concepts in SCRM are introduced. Next, sources of SC risks, SCRM and its process, and some robust SC risk mitigation strategies are introduced. Finally, an introduction to several mathematical models for SCRM is given.

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