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2010/11/03 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

The impact of supply chain glitches

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This is an investigation of the effects on shareholder wealth of supply chain glitches that resulted in production or shipment delays, using a sample of 519 announcements made during 1989-2000. On average, shareholder value is decrease by near 11% following an announcement of supply chain problems. [ ... ]

2010/11/01 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

The impact of disasters on supply chains

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Disasters. The result: Damaged infrastructure. End result: Disrupted supply chains. But how do disasters really impact supply chains? Is it different upstream or downstream the supply chain? [ ... ]

2010/10/28 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Toy stories: lessons to be learned

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How the toy industry handles supply chain risk is applicable to many other industries as well. While few of the risks faced by toy makers are unique to the industry, the combination of risks is daunting. [ ... ]

2010/10/26 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Control or laissez-faire?

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Supply networks are constantly changing. Perhaps not controlling, but letting things happen and letting supply networks emerge is the best management strategy? [ ... ]

2010/10/22 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Adaptive Fit versus Robust Transformation

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Resilience. A key ingredient in supply chain risk management. Also a key ingredient in logistics risk management. Cognitive resilience, behavioral resilience and contextual resilience must all come together for a resilient enterprise to emerge. [ ... ]

2010/10/21 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

German Autos at risk? Perhaps not.

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An empirical analysis of supply chain risk management in the German automotive industry shows that the group using reactive supply chain risk management seems to do better in terms of disruptions resilience or the reduction of the bullwhip effect, whereas the group pursuing preventive supply chain risk management seems to do better as to flexibility or safety stocks. [ ... ]

2010/10/19 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

CALL for Papers: NOFOMA 2011

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NOFOMA is the place to pick up the most recent trends in logistics and supply chain research and NOFOMA 2011 will be hosted in Harstad, Norway, June 9-10, 2011. It may be a bit early, but the deadline for paper submission is only some two months away. [ ... ]

2010/10/18 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Six levels of risk management

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In “Risk management in a dynamic society: a modelling problem” author Jens Rasmussen argues that risk management includes several levels ranging from legislators, over managers and work planners, to system operators. [ ... ]

2010/10/11 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

A better way of classifying and managing risks?

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Risk. The probability of an event occurring and the consequences of the event occurring. Does it have to be like that or is there a different, or perhaps even a better way? [ ... ]

2010/10/08 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

The world we live in: Risk Society

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We live in a world that is full of risk, risks that we to a large degree have created ourselves, and naturally occuring risk hardly exists anymore. That is a risk society. [ ... ]

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