Targets and Components of Supply Chain Safety Management: Structure of the Book

Based on the introductory chapter, five elements can be distinguished that are all part of the concept of SCSM. First at all (1), since various concepts already exist in the literature, the necessity of developing a new concept for the management of risk and uncertainty factors in company spanning supply chains has to be emphasized. Then (2), risk and uncertainty factors threatening a supply chain’s safety have to be identified and analyzed. Following this, adequate action measures have to be taken: Preventive action measures aim at eliminating the source of risk and uncertainty factors and therefore make contribution to a supply chain’s protection (3). Reactive action measures, by contrast, aim at minimizing the detrimental impact resulting from risk and uncertainty factors that already have occurred and therefore make contribution to a supply chain’s resilience (4). Finally, a management process has to be implemented enabling a supply chain to improve it’s overall preparedness (5).