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Supply Chain Management
 2009/11/13  Finally, the BBC Box has returned home, as I was made aware of from a post on @risk the other day. I had near forgotten about this project. A year ago I made a post on the BBC project “The Box”, where BBC News is following a shipping container for a whole year to tell the story of globalisation. The Box is back where it started, and what a voyage it has been, since the voyage coincided with some of the most dramatic developments in the global economy including the first global recession in 60 years.
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2009/07/17  Are you the weakest link in your own supply chain? That’s the question asked in an article in the Harvard Business Review some time ago. The article is geared towards company CEOs, advising them not to get too detached from supply management, but rather to actively engage in their company’s supply chain management, particularly in businesses like manufacturing, retail and distribution. This article may not be that much related to supply chain risk, but it is not totally unrelated.
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2009/07/01  Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way that is focused on theory building based on learned borrowing from other disciplines. That is how academians can breathe new life into the study of supply chain management. So say Michael E. Smith and Lee Buddress in their 2005 article, Supply chain management: borrowing our way to a discipline. But what do they actually mean? And why does supply chain management need a wider horizon in the first place?
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2009/06/25 Can strategic alliances really work? In Trust, Control and Risk in Strategic Alliances, Das & Teng (2001) propose a new integrated framework for these three constructs in the context of strategic alliances. A strategic alliance is a form of cooperation and all forms of cooperation are wrought with risk, as yesterday’s article on why all businesses are snakes shows. Das and Teng develop a framework to address this risk, show what forms of control are available and discuss how trust can evolve.
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2009/06/10 I have always seen myself as a cross-disciplinary thinker, and I guess that is why I am so often sidetracked and led astray by a-maze-ing discoveries when attempting to focus on a subject. But browsing other areas of study and even borrowing ideas from them can be very beneficial. It can shed a different light on things, and at best, help you not to reinvent the wheel. At least that is what James Stock thought in 1997, when he wrote: Applying theories from other disciplines to logistics.
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2009/05/28 Opposites attract and in the supply chain world, “lean” and “agile” appear to be opposites. Both management strategies have their advantages and disadvantages, and the question is, is it possible for them to exist side by side, or even fuse? In their 2006 article A taxonomy for selecting global supply chain strategies, Christopher, Peck and Towill describe a fusion of Lean and Agile, termed LeAgile.
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2009/05/25  This book is a gem. To me. Where Helen Peck in her article Reconciling supply chain vulnerability, risk and supply chain management takes a holistic academic perspective on supply chain risk and business continuity, David Kaye in his book Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain takes on a holistic business perspective to explain the concept of the extended supply chain. Seldom have I read a book that captured my attention from the beginning to the end. It is not a textbook for the academic, nor is it a handbook for the manager, but it is an easy read.
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2009/05/23  Thanks to my LinkedIn connection with Jeff Ashcroft of the SupplyChainNetwork I was made aware of a new site: The Grapevine – An evolving social media experiment, promising “access to free international publications and white papers no matter what your location in the world“. Duh…or worthwhile? Well, so I had to check this out, and as it turns out, not too bad. At least they do have a section on transportation and logistics.
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2009/05/20 Today’s post is on how looking up new articles from reference lists can lead to amazing discoveries, and it’s quite interesting to note how one thing leads to the other…especially when you’re doing literature reviews…and usually it’s like this: You are reading some article on your main subject when you see some interesting references, which you look up, just to find even more interesting references, which you also look up, just to be led even further astray… and soon you find yourself reading something that isn’t even remotely related to – but at the same time much more fascinating than – what you were researching in the first place. No wonder I cannot get things done… That’s how I stumbled upon the Theory of Constraints, an amazing discovery that came from the aforementioned a-maze-ing discoveries (i.e. references that led me astray).
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2009/05/18  Slightly outside the scope of this blog, which deals more with the management side of supply chain risk, and less with the technical or operational side of supply chain mangement, today I’d like to promote the International Workshop on Secure Supply Chain Collaboration, June 2, Barcelona, Spain. This SecureSCM workshop is open to all those interested in finding solutions to the challenges of data sharing and collaborative supply chain management across supply chain players.
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2009/05/15  People are what makes organizations work, or in some cases, not work. Just as supply chain is all about getting the right product to the right place at the right time and at the right price, the talent supply chain is all about getting the right people in the right jobs with the right skills at the right time and right price. What happens if you don’t have the right people? Well, you may have disaster waiting to happen from within.
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