Thank you for your comment. I’m glad that my site is of help to you. That is exactly what it is meant to be. Good luck with your research!

Thank you for you comment and for your question. I wish I could help you, but frankly, there are about as many risks as there are supply chains.

That said, I believe that you might find the SCOR supply chain risk management framework quite useful for your dissertation.

You are helping me out very much in all the ways, however I am gonna start my master’s dissertation. I am confused with the topic selection under supply chain risks.

Basically, I want to find out how many types of risks are there and their appropriate strategies, I tried a lot searching for that but ended up with nothing.

If you can please tell me any previous research done in this area with respect to my question then please do reply me. thanks

As to your question, as far as I am able to tell, article above uses the focal company perspective, looking at at ingoing and outgoing external flows. “Raw” materials in, “finished” products out.

While you may be right in saying that it is “a core business process to make the product available to customers”, very few companies really own their distribution channels, but of course, if a manufacturer owns the entire supply chain, or if the distributor owns the retail outlets and the trucks distributing the goods, that could be viewed as an internal flow.

That perspective is then perhaps more similar to the one seen in Jüttner et al.(2003), which has the organization, the network, and the environment as risk sources.

I was going through your amazing social library, the above topic says flow of materials is an external risk, in what perspective..?

Is it not a core business process to make the product available to customers…?

What if the distributor maintains everything like retail outlets as well..?