Abstract:
Historically, risk management in the supply chain has been an accomplished
practice. Over the last two decades, Turkish cargo transportation firms have
successfully adopted the required mechanisms to maintain logistics operations.
Turkey, with its professional approach, has achieved remarkable success in cargo
transportation towards dealing with risk factors involved. In this study it has been
tried to explore the success areas that constitute risk management in supply chain
taking cargo transportation in Turkey as the case study. For this purpose, questions
were unfolded on the principal risk factors on supply chain risk management, the
principal actions and mechanisms for supply chain risk management and the most
suitable methods for attaining a flexible supply chain. In this research a pragmatic
philosophy was adopted for methods and techniques of data collection. The research
is based on multi sources of data collection that include both sources of data
collection, known as primary and secondary data sources. The first part of the
questionnaire used in this research includes closed ended questions consisting of
answers about demographic and general information. The second part of the
questionnaire includes close ended questions provided with five-point Likert type
scale about questions to learn the responses of the supply chain managers related to
the services on cargo transportation provided in Turkey and to measure their
satisfaction level.
The population of the research is the managers and employees on cargo
transportation sector in Turkey. In this research it has been investigated whether
there is a positive relationship between risk exposure, competitive differentiation,
environmental risk and legal requirements with supply chain risk management. The
data collected from the sample of the research and analysis on the data has shown
that the cargo transportation companies in Turkey have an effective risk management
on supply chain. Respondents seem to be satisfied with their company's supply chain
risk management owing to their senior management's being sufficiently responsible
on the subject. The findings of the research reveals that in cargo transportation
sector, exposure to risk factors affects the success of supply chain management, and
to be able to effectively deal with these risk factors, companies pay attention to
develope the capacity of their managers to comply with competitive factors.
