1st Edition
X-SCM The New Science of X-treme Supply Chain Management
1. Introduction and Overview 2. Volatility as a Key Driver 3. Risk and how it Affects and Stresses All Types of Supply Chains: Product, Service, Financial and Cyber 4. Supply Chain Network Design for Volatility 5. Managing Multichannel Demand & Supply for Volatility 6. How Global Online Supply Chain Communities are Collaborating to Overcome Risk 7. Sustaining Network Performance Over Time Amidst Volatility 8. Managing the Cyber/IT Supply Chain for Volatility and Risk 9. Maximizing the Financial Supply Chain in Volatile Business Environments 10. Adapting the Services Supply Chain to Hedge Risk 11. Conclusions. Appendices
Biography
Lisa H. Harrington is president of the lharrington group, a strategic consulting and marketing communication services firm focused on supply chain management, warehousing and related technology. She also is a senior research fellow and adjunct professor at the Supply Chain Management Center, Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
Dr. Sandor Boyson has over twenty-five years of global supply chain management consulting experience in the business and public sectors. He is the co-author (with Dr. Corsi and Ms. Harrington) of two books on Supply Chain Management, including In Real Time: Managing the New Supply Chain (Praeger, 2004). Professor Boyson is founding Co-Director of the Robert H. Smith School’s Supply Chain Management Center.
Dr. Thomas M. Corsi is Michelle E. Smith Professor of Logistics at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and founding Co-Director of Smith’s Supply Chain Management Center. He has authored three books: The Economic Effects of Surface Freight Deregulation (Brookings, 1990), and (with Dr. Boyson and Ms. Harrington) Logistics and the Extended Enterprise: Benchmarks and Best Practices for the Manufacturing Professional (Wiley, 1999).
