What is Transportation and Distribution Risks

The coronavirus pandemic has massively disrupted supply chain performance at the global and local stage, and the concept of supply chain risk management and resilience has been pushed to the forefront. In order to overcome all these challenges and changes, it's time for businesses and supply chains to learn from the past and to develop new strategical and organizational dimensions and to be ready with alternative strategy which has not been widely discussed, 'risks mitigation in distribution', to ensure the delivery of final products to the end consumers. This chapter presents a review of literature that addresses supply chains risks, which are generated in transportation and distribution. In this regard, it's crucial to bring to light as well some measures and strategies that companies can implement to cope with the risks caused by some disruptions. These include the rising importance of safety, digitalization, and the need to revisit the meaning of efficiency in transportation and distribution management.