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Building the resilient supply chain

Frankly, if you are investigating how to make supply chains more resilient, and if you forget to mention this article in your literature review, then I would say that, obviously, you have absolutely no clue about supply chains or resilience.

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Risk Management: Contingent versus Mitigative

Risk management needs to address both sides of the risk: what lies behind the risk (source) and what lies in front of it (consequences).

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Lean + Agile = LeAgile: a happy marriage?

Opposites attract and in the supply chain world, “lean” and “agile” appear to be opposites. Both management strategies have their advantages and disadvantages.

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Supply Chain Risk Management – as seen from Space

Is it possible to reconcile supply chain vulnerability, risk and supply chain management with corporate governance, business continuity, national security and emergency planning?

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A Future Research Agenda for Supply Chain Risk

When Manuj and Mentzer (2008) wrote their article titled Global Supply Chain Risk Management, they used Ghoshal (1987) Global Strategy: An Organizing Framework for developing sources of risk and Jüttner, Peck and Christopher (2003) Supply Chain Risk Management: Outlining an Agenda for Future Research for developing risk mitigation strategies.

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Drivers of supply chain vulnerability

In her article Drivers of supply chain vulnerability: an integrated framework, Helen Peck identifies four drivers of supply chain vulnerability:Value stream, product or processes,Assets and infrastructure dependencies,Organizations and inter-organizational networks,The Environment.

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Is Your Supply Chain Vulnerable?

Supply chain vulnerability is an important business issue, but little research has been undertaken into supply chain vulnerabilities. Recently I came across a report on Supply Chain Vulnerability published as early as 2002 by the Cranfield University.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Risk management: core competence?
Is risk management overlooked as an important source of competitive advantage? That is the question [...]
A new supply chain perspective: The supply chain life cycle
It is not often that I come across papers with a holistic view of the supply chain as a living and d[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Transportation Network Analysis
Transportation Network Analysis by M. G. H. Bell and Yasunori Iida is a book for the expert rather t[...]
Book Review - Fraud Risk
Last year I was approached by Gower Publishing and invited to review their Short Guides to Business [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Risk management - Vocabulary
What is risk management in supply chains? The more I study supply chain risk management, the more co[...]
Critical Infrastructure and Resilience
What happens when a business is disabled for a length of time? What are the impacts on its profitabi[...]
from HERE and THERE
Crisis? What crisis?
Finally, almost to the day six months into my new job, a genuinely new post on husdal.com. My new li[...]
Supply Chain Risk Management 2008
Supply Chain Risk Management 2008, 3rd & 4th November 2008, World Trade Centre, the Netherlands[...]