Concerned with the risk of supplier default, a firm may choose to diversify its orders among multiple suppliers. Furthermore, the discrepancy in production lead-times among suppliers furnishes a firm with a valuable option to defer ordering decisions until uncertainty has been partially...

The risk of supply disruptions due to suppliers' financial problems plays a prominent role in manufacturers' risk portfolios. Even large suppliers (e.g. Delphi) could file for bankruptcy, and manufacturer's actions, such as financial subsidies to the suppliers, affect profoundly suppliers'...

Chapter 1. Primer on Operations, Finance, and Their Interface -- Chapter 2. Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing -- Chapter 3. Blockchain -- Chapter 4. FinTech and OpTech -- Chapter 5. Supply Chain Finance -- Chapter 6. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robots -- Chapter 7. Analytics, IoT...