供应链风险评估 外文翻译.doc

学 毕 业 设 计（论 文） 外文文献翻译 系 别： 专 业： 班 级： 管理工程学院 物流管理 学生姓名： 导师姓名： 职称： 起止时间：2012 年 3 月 10 日 至 2012 年 6 月 11 日 An analysis of supply chain risk assessment techniques Author：George A.Zsidisin，Lisa M.Ellram and Joseph R.Carter，Joseph L.Cavinato，Glendale，Arizona Nationality：USA（Michigan State University，East Lansing,Michigan） Derivatio： Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management; February 2004, Vol. 34 No 5, p397-413 Introduction Every organization needs to obtain goods and services in order to carry out its objectives and goals. Risk exists in obtaining these items, whether it is explicitly acknowledged and managed, investigated in a cursory manner, or ignored altogether.However, there has been minimal research conducted on how purchasing organizations assess the risk that exists with inbound supply. This paper focuses on inbound supply risk, which we define in this research as “the potential occurrence of an incident associated with inbound supply from individual supplier failures or the supply market, in which its outcomes result in the inability of the purchasing firm to meet customer demand or cause threats to customer life and safety”.Two explicit concepts within this definition of inbound supply risk are probability and impact. Probability, within a supply management context, is a measure of how often a detrimental event that results in a loss occurs. Impact, on the other hand, refers to the significance of that loss to the organization. Therefore, as discussed in prior research,Hallikas et al., 2002; Luce and Raiffa, 1957; Shapira, 1995; Yates and Stone, 1992) risk is perceived to exist when there is a relatively high likelihood that a detrimental event can occur and that event has a significant associated impact or cost. It is critical to an organization’s success to understand the supply risk that exists. A upplier’s failure to deliver inbound purchased goods or services can have a detrimental effect for the purchasing firm and subsequently throughout the downst