Trends in logistics and supply chain management: a focus on risk

Grant, David

Abstract

The logistics and supply chain management domain faces a number of ongoing trends and resultant issues including costs, the globalisation of supply and markets, time compression, product complexity and shrinking product life cycles, quality of performance and service, a shortage of logistics and supply chain management talent, their impact on the natural environment, and risk and disruption and supply chain security. This paper discusses and synthesises these important trends and focuses on risk as an issue that, besides costs, underlies and/or affects almost every other trend. These trends are also related to the context of Thailand and Asia due to their importance in the run-up to the Asian Economic Community (AEC) 2015. Some suggestions are provided for risk mitigation strategies that will address the other trends.

Citation

Grant, D. (2014). Trends in logistics and supply chain management: a focus on risk. Journal of supply chain management : research & practice / Assumption University of Thailand, 8(2),

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2014-12
• Deposit Date: Jan 11, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 23, 2017
• Journal: Journal of supply chain management : research and practice
• Print ISSN: 1905-9566
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Keywords: Logistics, Supply chain management, Trends, Risk
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/383993
• Publisher URL: http://www.aujm.au.edu/index.php/JSCM/article/view/194
• Additional Information: Copy of article first published in: Journal of supply chain management : research and practice, 2014, v.8, issue 2.