A study and comparison of risk factors in supply chain management for different scale industries Balvinder, Singh Jaswant Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lingayas University, Faridabad, Haryana, India Online published on 5 June, 2014. Abstract Today there is cut-throat competition in the market. There are a number of brand names for same product & for same quality also. Hence it is difficult to companies to maintain its market & satisfy its customer. Managing supply chain is a complex issue for manufacturing industry. With the advancement of technology & information system, the inventory reduces & hence cost has been decreased. But it also increases the risk in business & affects its services level. In this paper Supply(Procurement), Implementation lead –times Risk, Market Risk, Demand Risk, Strategy Risk, factors of supply chain causing disruption & loss is studied. The aim of this paper is to compare the risk factors associated with small, medium & large scale industry. A questionnaire is made by selecting important factors. Response is received from NCR companies as which factors are responsible for loss/high cost. Hence we can conclude that every industry has different risk factors that are causing disruption. Hence different industry concentrates on different factor to minimize the disruption. Top Keywords Industrial Risk, Supply Chain, External Risk, Internal Risk, Demand, Procurement, Inventory. Top |