SUPPLY CHAIN RISK MANAGEMENT AND ITS MITIGATION IN A FOOD INDUSTRY

Ali Diabat (1) , Govindan Kannan (2) , Vinay Panikar (3)

1 Engineering Systems and Management
2 Department of Business and Economics
3 Mechanical Engineering

The food supply chain is the domain in this work which suffers a lot of uncertainty in its functioning. The paper discusses the various research works in the area of Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM). The main objective of the proposed work is to create a model which analyzes the various risks involved in a food supply chain with the help of Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) tool. The types of risks are clustered in five categories and the risk mitigation is discussed. The model developed is validated with the help of case study on a food products manufacturing firm (RMK food products) in the southern part of India. The various types of risks involved in the food industries were selected based on the literature study and in consultation with the experts in food industry. This work helps the manager to identify the risks having high driving power and low dependency and vice versa.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Ali Diabat, Govindan Kannan, Vinay Panikar. SUPPLY CHAIN RISK MANAGEMENT AND ITS MITIGATION IN A FOOD INDUSTRY. International Journal of Production Research, 2011, pp.1. ⟨10.1080/00207543.2011.588619⟩. ⟨hal-00732522⟩