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2010/07/01 from the LITERATURE 3 reactions

Mitigating Supply Chain Vulnerability

I’m a quantitative researcher, so I usually shy away from journal articles with too many equations and complicated calculations. This one, however, I can not avoid mentioning, because it is brilliantly simple, despite its seemingly complicated looks. In their article, aptly titled Mitigating Supply Chain Vulnerability, Brian D Neureuther and George Kenyon develop a risk assessment index that can be used to measure the vulnerability of different supply chain structures. While it is apparently straightforward to calculate this risk index, it is subject to a number of assumptions that are not equally straightforward to quantify. Is it still worth reading and using?

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2010/06/19 from the LITERATURE One reaction

The causes of logistics uncertainty

Logistics uncertainty – a new research strand in supply chain risk research? So it would seem, as this is the fourth time I’ve come across the authors of today’s article. In their most recent article  Evaluating the causes of uncertainty on logistics operations, just out, Vasco Sanchez-Rodrigues, Andrew Potter and Mohamed M. Naim further explore their transport uncertainty triad model which they started on some years ago, and whose articles have been mentioned on this blog in previous posts. It is only recently, though, that I have become aware of their research that links up perfectly with my own research in supply chain disruptions in sparse transportation networks, and it most definitely is a research that I intend to follow closely.

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2010/06/11 from the LITERATURE 4 reactions

State of the art in SCRM?

A severe supply chain disruption has hit my own blog: More than a month without a post. It’s not that there is so little to write about, it’s just that there is so little time to do it, which is why I’ve decided to reurn to a once weekly posing schedule. Nonetheless, what better occasion could there be to resume my posting than the discovery of an article proclaiming to provide a review of the state of the art in supply chain risk management? The literature review and conceptual framework developed by Hans-Christian Pfohl, Holger Köhler and David Thomas clearly identifies the main principles of SCRM and develops a framework and definitions for disturbance, disruption, security, resilience and risk. Supply chain risk management, so they say, is a process with evolutionary steps, involving no less than 17 underlying principles. Phew…

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2010/04/30 from the LITERATURE 3 reactions

What goes into resilience?

Resilience. That seems to be the buzzword these days. It seems to be making its way not only around the blogosphere, like on Ken Simpson’s blog, but also in the supply chain and logistics literature. In Ensuring supply chain resilience: Development of a conceptual framework, just out in the Journal of Business Logistics, Timothy J Pettit, Joseph Fiksel and Keely L Croxton develop a concept of supply chain resilience based on an extensive literature search and a focus group study. And quite frankly, this is one of the the better and most comprehensive frameworks for understanding resilience that I have seen, drawing on the quintessence of many years of supply chain risk research. Resilience, in essence, is bridging vulnerabilities by honing capabilities.

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2010/04/23 from the LITERATURE 4 reactions

Managing risk together

Purchasing theory… I have to admit it’s not one of my particular strongholds, but several of my readers and commenters have mentioned this article, most recently in a comment on A future research agenda for supply chain risk management, so I thought that perhaps I should have a look at it. After all, supplier relationships have been on my blog time and again , so why not? In their 2005 article  Risk-based classification of supplier relationships by a Finnish quartet from the Lappeenranann University of Technology, Jukka Hallikas, Kaisu Puumalainen, Toni Vesterinen and Veli-Matti Virolainen set out to develop a new classification scheme for suppliers, based on buyer dependency risk and supplier dependency risk.

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