Deceptive counterfeit risk in global supply chains

Counterfeit Drug Penetration into Global Legitimate Medicine Supply Chains: A Global Assessment

Counterfeit medicines are a global public health risk. We assess counterfeit reports involving the legitimate supply chain using 2009-2011 data from the Pharmaceutical Security Institute Counterfeit Incident System (PSI CIS) database that uses both open and nonpublic data sources. Of the 1,510 identified CIS reports involving counterfeits, 27.6% reported China as the source country of the incid...

Risk and Visibility in Global Supply Chains: An Empirical Study

Risk intermediation in supply chains

This paper demonstrates that an important role of intermediaries in supply chains is to reduce the ®nancial risk faced by retailers. It is well known that risk averse retailers when faced by the classical single-period inventory (newsvendor) problem will order less than the expected value maximizing (newsboy) quantity. We show that in such situations a risk neutral distributor can o€er a menu o...

Risk Propagation in Supply Chains

Alejandro Serrano MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] Rogelio Oliva Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] Santiago Kraiselburd MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics...

Location Selection in Global Supply Chains

Supply chain decision problems are becoming more complex with the globalization of businesses spanning several international borders. One such strategic decision problem is the location selection problem, which determines an optimal location to build a new facility. This requires multicriteria evaluation of N alternate locations with respect to M location attributes. The alternate locations cou...