Call for papers: Risk Management in Supply Chains

Print this post

E-mail this post to a friend

risk-management-in-supply-chains Operational research has become one of the most indispensable tools in business. Modelling and analysis play a major role in abstract representation of business systems and data analysis and, subsequently, in the generation of relevant information for making more accurate decisions. That is why the International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research has issued a call for papers for a Special Issue on Risk Management in Supply Chains, in order to explore the state-of-the-art applications and methods of risk management in supply chains.

Risk Management in Supply Chains

I said it in my recent post on Risk and Supply Chains and I’ve said it before in many of my posts, I’m not a quantitative researcher; I prefer qualitative research where I can ask strategic questions and draw visionary lines, without going into too many details or juggle to many numbers, let alone equations with integrals and sigmas. Like Giordano Bruno, I like to speculate with images, rather than formulas. That said, I will not let my qualitative inclination stop me from promoting a call for papers from a highly quantitative journal. I will not be submitting an article for this special issue, but I’m sure many of may readers may want to.

Call for papers

The recent trends such as offshore manufacturing, lean sourcing and global outsourcing has considerably increased the risk exposure of firms and their supply chains. Topics of interest focus on solving supply chain problems considering risk factors and include, but are not limited to:

State-of-the-art reviews
Operations decision making under uncertainties
Supply chain disruption management
Optimisation with risks
Risk assessment and mitigation in supply chains
Risk management in inventory control
Value of information and information asymmetry
Impact of risk aversion in supply chain performance
Financial risk measures and portfolio risk
Risk management in projects

Submission due: 30 June 2010.
Please follow the link below for more information.

Link

inderscience.com: Call for papers: Risk Management in Supply Chains

husdal.com: A philosophical essay on reliability and vulnerability

Risk management in supply chains is a crucial discipline which helps companies not only to deal with these risks but also to turn these threats to possible opportunities.