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Gopalakrishnan Mohan

2009/11/16 from the LITERATURE One reaction

Supply, Demand, and ... Miscellanous Risk?

I’ve said so before, sometimes new articles are found in new and unlikely places. The other day I was proofreading the paper of a colleague and something caught my attention in her reference list. A brand new article, just out: Managing disruptions in supply chains: A case study of a retail supply chain by Adegoke Oke and Mohan Gopalakrishnan. Now, here was a chance to learn something new…so I thought, and so I did. However, I’m not sure I follow the authors in their risk categorization: supply, demand and “miscellanous” risk? What is this “miscellanous” risk?

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