Supply Chain Finance: Overview and Future Directions

摘要

The following volume, which surveys the most recent research in supply chain finance, is motivated by the success of the third "Supply Chain Finance & Risk Management Workshop," which was held at the Olin Business School of Washington University in St. Louis, on May 14-15, 2017. The workshop was organized in collaboration and with the financial support of the Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation (BCSCI) at Washington University. During the workshop, the participants wondered if it would be possible to establish an outlet that would give them a timelier access to the latest research on supply chain finance and supply chain risk management. (It is well-known, that due to review process lead times, articles that eventually make it into one of our top journals are typically 2 to 3 years old.) The idea of producing an edited volume, which would include an overview of the latest articles on the topics above appealed not only to the workshop participants but also to other active members of the iFORM (Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management) research community. The Editor of "Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management," published by Now Publishers Inc., Professor Charles Corbett was open to the idea and accepted our proposal to produce two volumes. The first volume is oil the topic of supply chain finance and the second is on the subject of integrated risk management.