Qualitative Modeling of Offshore Outsourcing Risks in Supply Chain Management and Logistics

What are the biggest challenges facing those managing supply chains? Qualitative Modeling of Offshore Outsourcing Risks in Supply Chain Management and Logistics is intended to benefit the stakeholders in client organizations by raising their understanding and awareness about the most dominant risks. This will equip supply chain managers to give more emphasis to mitigating these risks. It further showcases the development and validation of a conceptual framework that depicts the relationship among key offshore outsourcing risks. The text explores modelling various risks which disrupt the automotive supply chain and cybersecurity breaches in digital supply chains.

This book:

• Covers structural modelling of key offshore outsourcing risks for understanding their driving and dependence power
• Presents a conceptual framework and hierarchical structural model for perfect order fulfilment in both upstream and downstream supply chains
• Explores the challenges in handling operational risks associated with poor delivery performance or service quality
• Models dimensions which affect vendor selection in offshore outsourcing environment
• Investigates cultural influences on the management of geographically distributed operations in offshore outsourcing
• Addresses the workforce-related offshore outsourcing risk such as loss of key professionals
• Discusses the risk associated with selection of location, viz. distribution centres/warehouses in supply chain and logistics
• Models dimensions related to cybersecurity breaches in digital supply chains because of IT offshoring

It is aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, supply chain management and production engineering.