Risk Management Practices for Managing Product Quality in Global Supply Chain
In recent years, product recalls due to quality and safety problems have been surging. In 2009, the product recall cases in EU countries had doubled to 1686 in four years (RAPEX, 2010). The rise of recent product recalls suggests that manufacturing firms are particularly vulnerable to product safety where goods and materials have been sourced globally. For firms and policy makers, this raises the question of whether prevailing quality management practices and regulations in the global supply chain environment are fit for purpose, and what form of risk management practices can help to manage product quality effectively. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework concerned with the preservation of product quality and safety in global supply chains. We describe the complexity of global supply networks and the magnitude of global sourcing, both in terms of product quality risk and safety issue. The goal of this research is to develop a supply chain risk management framework through an integration of diverse research stream related to management of supply chain risk. In particular, four supply chain risk management practices are proposed to mitigate the quality risk which is inherent from the supply network.
global supply chain product quality and safety supply chain risk management
YingKei Tse KimHua Tan
Nottingham University Business School, United Kingdom
国际会议
香港·广州
英文
907-912
2010-07-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）