Operations Management homework help. Environmental Risk Factors
Using Part 1 of the Supply Chain Risk Assessment Survey, evaluate your company’s (Wal-Mart) environmental risk factors. Discuss the areas you believe are the greatest risk or concern for your company to manage. Why do you believe these are the greatest risks? What approaches do you recommend it use to mitigate these risks? Would your recommendations reduce the risk level? Why or why not?
Your initial post must include all the assigned readings and must be a minimum of 250 words in length, with no maximum
Supply Chain Risk Assessment Survey
Part 1
The following table will help you identify and assess risk to the supply chain ecosystem impacting a company of your choice. You may revisit and revise these tables as you gather more information.
Identify the level of macro ecosystem risk (probability and severity) for each factor as applied to the company you selected for case study in this course. Note: Please place an “X” in the appropriate column for each type of risk.
To review definitions of the risk factors, please see Ho, Zheng, Yildiz, and Talluri’s 2015 article, “Supply Chain Risk Management: A Literature Review,” from the Unit 2 readings.

	Low Macro Risk	Medium Macro Risk	High Macro Risk
Natural disaster
War and terrorism
Fire accidents
Political instability
Economic downturns
External legal issues
Sovereign risk
Regional instability
Governmental regulations
Social and cultural grievances

 
 

Operations Management homework help