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2009/12/15 from the LITERATURE 2 reactions

Security in maritime supply chains

This week’s focus are risks in the maritime supply chain. Today’s article reflects on security in maritime supply chains: Assurance of security in maritime supply chains: Conceptual issues of vulnerability and crisis management by Paul Barnes and Richard Oloruntoba from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, suggests that the complex interaction of ports, maritime operations and supply chains creates vulnerabilities that requires analysis that extends beyond the immediate visible.

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2009/12/08 from the LITERATURE No reactions yet

Risks and supply chains... stochastically speaking

A word of warning: This is not your typical journal article on supply chain risk. Risks and supply chains by Charles Tapiero and Alberto Grando starts out as an easy read, reviewing the literature and discussing the risk sources and risk consequences we all know by now, but it ends in an inconclusive and unsurmountable stack of equations not suited for the stochastically uninitiated researcher like me. Nonetheless, the arguments leading up to the equations are definitely worth reflecting on. In particular, the difference between external risks and risk externalities are worth noting.

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2009/12/07 from the LITERATURE No reactions yet

Supply Chain Confidence

Did a 2001 white paper turn into a 2004 academic journal article just like that? In Mitigating supply chain risk through improved confidence, Martin Christopher and Hau Lee explore the impact confidence has on supply chain performance. Although difficult to precisely quantify, the confidence factor can have significant impact on inventory levels and operating costs, they say. Interestingly this 2004 article also appears as a 2001 white paper on supply chain confidence published by the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum. Is the journal article just a re-published white paper?

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2009/12/04 from the LITERATURE 4 reactions

Risk & Vulnerability

Supply chains are increasingly becoming complex webs and networks and are no longer straightforward chains with just a few links between supplier and customer.  Supply chains have indeed become complex systems, and the system thinking that pervades Einarsson and Rausand (1997) An Approach to Vulnerability Analysis of Complex Industrial Systems is perhaps applicable to supply chains? Why?  Perhaps because, really, there is little difference between vulnerability in supply chains and vulnerability in complex industrial systems.

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2009/12/03 from the LITERATURE No reactions yet

Risky ramblings

Why such a title for today’s post? The abstract of the 2004 article Risky business: Expanding the discussion on risk and the extended enterprise by Robert E Spekman and Edward W Davis promises to highlight six areas of supply chain risk and discuss these at length, showing how they are endemic to the extended enterprise, and develop a typology for categorizing them. And indeed, a lengthy discussion it is, hence the “rambling“. That said, it is a lengthy discussion not to be missed.

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