Supply Chain Risk by Structure

A number of trends have made the supply chain more vulnerable and supply chain risk management has become a research area of its own. The aim of this paper is to describe the effect of supply chain structure to supply chain risk transfer and risk control. According to the characteristics of supply chain structure, the risk transfer processes can be sorted into series process, parallel process, distribution process, assembly process, and switch process. The formulas of risk value for every process are given. Based on the researches on risk transfer processes, the relation between supply chain structure and total supply chain risk level is discovered. The conclusions would be applied to supply chain total risk assessment and supply chain structure optimization based on risk control