Critiquing Supply Chain Risk Management

The literature of SCRM is coherent in its promulgation of SCM-compliant solutions to risk. Circularity colours the reasoning of SCRM: the issues of integration are resolvable by integration; risk is the product of uncertainty; SC solutions resolve SC problems. The question of SCRM’s applicability to non-SC systems is unaddressed, as too is the possibility that non-integrated systems might retain risk-related advantages over integrated systems. The prospect that risk might be addressed by unorthodox or retrograde methods awaits presentation.