Over the last two decades, several textbooks, research papers, and best practice cases have been published on supply chain management. However, globalization has created dispersed supply chains which are vulnerable and dependent on entities and factors that are exogenous to the supply chain....

Conception of fail-safe supply networks -- Variation management in a single forward supply chain -- Variation management in pre- and after-sales supply chains of non-repairable products -- Variation management in the product-service supply chains of repairable products -- Variation management in...