"Improving Visibility, Risk Management and Economic Sustainability of Supply Chains"

“提高供应链的可见性、风险管理和经济可持续性”

• 批准号: 249493-2012
• 负责人: Ray, Saibal
• 金额: $ 2.04万
• 依托单位: McGill University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=509240
• 关键词: Improving; Visibility; Risk; Management; Economic

Recent changes in business environments like large-scale offshoring, shortening product lifecycles and focus on emerging economies as growth drivers, have significantly impacted the supply chains of North American firms. The most important effects are: i) fragmented supply chains that create incentive asymmetry among the chain partners, ii) an increase in risk from both supply and demand perspectives, and, iii) lack of visibility across the chain that results in information asymmetry among the chain partners. The objective of this research program is to develop normative models that can help managers to better cope with this increased risk and provide end-to-end visibility of supply chains as well as result in improved economic outcomes for the chain partners. In order to do so, we will first address the issue of supply side risk management in the context of product development in regulated industries and for supply chains where tier-1 suppliers outsource to sub-tier suppliers without informing the OEM. Subsequently, we will develop an integrative supply chain framework that incorporates incentive asymmetry, both demand and supply risks and lack of information about both such risks. The goal would be to analyze the framework in order to better understand how chain partners can use different types of strategies to mitigate such risks and asymmetries. While the above two research projects will focus on stylized models, in the third one we intend to study more realistic models of supply chain risk management in two specific contexts: emerging economies and the natural resource sector. These two settings are similar in the sense that both of them suffer from risk and asymmetry issues discussed above. Given that many Canadian companies are aiming to enter emerging markets and Canadian economy is very much dependent on natural resources, both these domains are vital for the Canadian economy. In this phase our objective will be to develop and analyze frameworks that capture their idiosyncrasies. We are confident that the strategic and tactical insights developed from the above two contextual models would help Canadian firms to better compete in the global marketplace.

最近商业环境的变化，如大规模离岸外包、缩短产品生命周期以及将重点放在新兴经济体作为增长动力，都对北美公司的供应链产生了重大影响。最重要的影响是：1)供应链支离破碎，造成供应链伙伴之间的激励不对称；2)从供需双方的角度来看，风险增加；3)整个供应链缺乏可见性，导致供应链伙伴之间的信息不对称。这项研究计划的目标是开发标准化模型，帮助管理者更好地应对这种增加的风险，提供端到端的供应链可见性，并为链合作伙伴带来更好的经济结果。为此，我们将首先在受监管行业和供应链的产品开发背景下解决供应方面的风险管理问题，在这些供应链中，一级供应商在没有通知OEM的情况下将业务外包给次级供应商。随后，我们将开发一个整合的供应链框架，该框架包含激励不对称、需求和供应风险以及对这两种风险缺乏信息。目标是分析框架，以便更好地了解连锁伙伴如何使用不同类型的战略来缓解这种风险和不对称性。虽然以上两个研究项目将重点放在程式化的模型上，但在第三个项目中，我们打算在两个特定背景下研究更现实的供应链风险管理模型：新兴经济体和自然资源部门。这两种环境在某种意义上是相似的，因为它们都存在上述风险和不对称问题。鉴于许多加拿大公司的目标是进入新兴市场，而且加拿大经济非常依赖自然资源，这两个领域对加拿大经济至关重要。在这一阶段，我们的目标是开发和分析能够捕捉它们特点的框架。我们相信，从上述两个背景模型中得出的战略和战术见解将有助于加拿大公司更好地在全球市场上竞争。