2011/05/09 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Building the resilient supply chain

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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. [ ... ]

2009/06/12 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Risk Management: Contingent versus Mitigative

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

2009/05/28 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Lean + Agile = LeAgile: a happy marriage?

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

2009/05/19 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Supply Chain Risk Management - as seen from Space

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

2008/11/04 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

A Future Research Agenda for Supply Chain Risk

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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. [ ... ]

2008/08/25 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Drivers of supply chain vulnerability

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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. [ ... ]

2007/09/02 THIS and THAT

Is Your Supply Chain Vulnerable?

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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. [ ... ]