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Transportation Resilience

Resilience is related to three overarching concepts: 1) the vulnerability to unpredictable shocks, 2) the resources or wealth available to a system to help it change, and 3) the internal controllability of relationships in a system, i.e. its rigidity or flexibility.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Structural embeddedness and the extended supply chain
The other day, while reviewing a chapter for inclusion (or not) in the upcoming book Managing Risk i[...]
Flexing your SCM muscles
A supply chain is never stronger than its weakest link, and that (having a weak link) is perhaps the[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Supply Chain Nirvana
Is there something like a Supply Chain Nirvana, where it all comes together and where a firm's suppl[...]
The Definition of Agility
Although getting close to 20 years old now, The Agile Virtual Enterprise: Cases, Metrics, Tools, wri[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The Benefits of Investing in Supply Chain Security
With the memory of attacks by Somali pirates still fresh in mind, supply chain security has come to [...]
A risky business? The top 10 challenges of offshoring
Organisations embarking on offshoring face multiple challenges; many of which can be extremely daunt[...]
from HERE and THERE
Sustainable Manufacturing Summit Europe
Soaring fuel prices combined with increasing awareness of the need to adapt for a low-carbon future [...]
Business Intelligence – a key element in Supply Chain Risk Management
In my postings on supply chain risk and supply chain disruption, there is one thing that I have ov[...]