Cloud computing represents a significant paradigm shift in the delivery of information technology (IT) services. The rapid growth of the cloud and the increasing security concerns associated with the delivery of cloud services has led many researchers to study cloud risks and risk assessments. Some of these studies highlight the inability of current risk assessments to cope with the dynamic nat...

Competing in an increasingly uncertain business environment, organizations need to mitigate its supply chain risks to enhance their resiliency. However, it is important to implement appropriate strategies to meet business needs. This paper presents a novel approach that integrates fuzzy risk assessment and fuzzy Delphi for the evaluation of strategies in order to mitigate supply chain risks. Th...

Shortages of medicines and vaccines have been reported in countries of all income levels in recent years. Shortages can result from one or multiple causes, including shortages of raw materials, manufacturing capacity problems, industry consolidation, marketing practices, and procurement and supply chain management. Existing approaches to mitigate shortages include advance notice systems managed...

Interrelationships and feedback loops between different enterprises in a supply chain are widely acknowledged to create additional challenges for risk identification and monitoring. However, each individual manufacturing enterprise is also characterized by interrelationships between its internal operational risks. Our paper investigates these internal interrelationships and provides insights in...

A number of trends like globalisation, outsourcing, single sourcing, and leanness have together created a more vulnerable supply chain. This increased vulnerability has made supply chain risk issues a hot topic in academia as well as in industry. There has, however, been a lack of suitable models. The objective of this paper is to develop one such model – a conceptual model with the help of whi...