Risk Exposure Index (REI)

David Simchi-Levi, William Schmidt, and Yehua Wei, From Superstorms to Factory Fires: Managing Unpredictable Supply-Chain Disruptions, Harvard Business Review, 2014.

MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation, MIT Professor David Simchi-Levi’s Risk Exposure Index (REI) used by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction: REI methodology beginning to influence thinking beyond the supply chain world, May 2, 2014.

D. Simchi-Levi, W. Schmidt, Y. Wei, P. Zhang, K. Combs, Y. Ge, O. Gusikhin, M. Sander and D. Zhang, Identifying Risks and Mitigating Disruptions in the Automotive Supply Chain, Interfaces, 2015. (2014 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice.)

INFORMS 2020 Impact Prize awarded to Prof. David Simchi-Levi for playing a leading role in developing and disseminating a new highly impactful paradigm for the identification and mitigation of risks in global supply chains.

Becky Ham, Companies use MIT research to identify and respond to supply chain risks, MIT News, June 15, 2022