2009/06/19
What is at the forefront of current research in supply chain management and logistics right now? I know, thanks to to Gyöngi Kovács at interorganisational.org, who attended the NOFOMA 2009 conference a couple of days ago. At the conference, Emerald, one of the world’s leading publishers of management journals, presented some statistics on which articles that were most downloaded from their online journals during the first quarter of 2009.
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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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2009/04/07
The other day I came across a very interesting PhD dissertation by Erik Sandberg from Linköping University in Sweden, declaring that Supply Chain Management perhaps is more of a myth than a reality in today’s business world. That is a very bold claim, but after reading the dissertation I must give the guy some credit. I think he could be right.
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2008/04/26
A new field has emerged with the field of supply chain mangement. It’s called supply chain risk. What is supply chain risk? Today I will take a closer look at the chapter titled “Managing risk in the supply chain” in Logistics & Supply Chain Management
by Christopher Martin, as reviewed in my previous post.
SCM Operation Environments (Harrison)
A supply chain is often imagined as a streamlined flow from a supplier to a company, from where it flows effortlessly on to a customer. So much for the theory. In reality, the emergence of various supply chain management strategies and practices contribute to considerable chaos within these supply chains, see image left, taken from the book Logistics Management and Strategy by Harrison and van Hoek. It is not surprising then that supply chains have become vulnerable, where even minor disruptions may result in chain-wide impacts across the whole supply chain. Along with supply chain risk, supply chain vulnerability is also and new and emerging field in the realm of supply chain management.
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2008/04/25
2008/01/16
This excellent book by Donald Waters, Supply Chain Risk Management: Vulnerability and Resilience in Logistics
, offers a comprehensive overview of many important issues in managing supply chain risk. More than 15 case studies and a straightforward hands-on practical approach make this book an enjoyable read. I almost forgot that I bought this book as a text book.
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2007/09/01
Logistics Management and Strategy by Alan Harrison and Remko van Hoek does come at very hefty price, but it is so much worth it. I have found it hard to find a book that explains the concepts of logistics and supply chain management in a clearer fashion than this book. Every chapter features a number of case studies in which the theory is discussed in-depth. In addition the figures and illustrations are clear cut and easy to understand. A must have for both student and practitioner.
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by Jan Stentoft Arlbjørn, Árni Halldórsson, Marianne Jahre, Karen Spens (eds.). I came across this book while doing some Google searches on supply chain risk, ending up on www.interorgainisational.org, a site run by two university professors, 
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