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Supply chain disruption risk on the rise

Global supply chains are increasingly becoming more vulnerable to potential disruption to trade. Every year, Aon publishes a political risk map, and in 2009 the number of countries tagged with ‘supply chain vulnerability’ has increased from 38 to 54.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Certain death: Not risky. Uncertain death: risky.
If you know for sure that things will go wrong, there really is no risk. If you don't know for sure [...]
SCRM Research Gaps
Supply Chain Risk Management is a area that has seen a significant growth in recent years. However, [...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: The Network Reliability of Transport
I guess you would have to have attended the conference yourself or be a researcher in this very fiel[...]
Book Review: Security Risk Management - Body of Knowledge
A Wiley book rarely lets you down, and this one doesn't either. With a refreshing Australian touch, [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Managing supply chain risk
In September and October 2009 the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 500 company executives with r[...]
Creating the resilient supply chain
This blog is about supply chain risk, business continuity and transport vulnerability, and while I h[...]
from HERE and THERE
How to get a PhD without a dissertation
This is a true story about how I was credited with a PhD without having one, just because someone mi[...]
Food commodity supply chains at risk?
Have the prices gone up at your local supermarket recently? Maybe your favorite chocolate is suddenl[...]