Research Of Supply-chain Crisis Management Caused By External Factors

Since the concept of crisis management was put forward in1960s for the firsttime, the domestic and foreign related theory develops rapidly. Throughout the world,every old-established company is not going off smoothly. They all have successfullyovercome various crises in the process of development and can keep pace with thetimes as well as maintain a strong vitality. In recent years, there is a stirring of interestin studying crisis management in the domestic, mainly concentrated in the publiccrisis management and enterprise crisis management, but lack of research on supplychain management.In the globalization of economy, the competition between enterprises has turnedinto the competition among supply chains. The thesis from the basic concepts of crisismanagement, crisis of supply chain management summarizes the related theory; baseon the actual crisis management case of Li&Fung Trading caused by external supplychain, analyze and refine the company’s solution through interview, on-the-spotinvestigations.The core of supply chain crisis management is: early warning, ongoingmanagement and sum up afterwards. These three stage theory proposed by RobertHeath in the "crisis management", caused a great attention in the international. Thethesis scans and models the supply chain crisis management caused by external underthe guidance of these three stage theory. It is the first time to apply environmentalscanning to supply chain crisis early warning system and actual case analysis tosupply chain crisis processing system, and propose organization security, mechanismsecurity and continuous training.The supply chain crisis early warning system and crisis management system inthis paper mentioned and three suggestions are closely combined with the actualsituation of Li&Fung Trading, has the practical significance and value to its supplychain crisis management, have certain reference significance for other enterprises inthe same industry.