2009/11/03 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Supply Chain Flexibility in Strategic Networks

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What fascinates me with this paper are (1) the parameters defining supply chain flexibility: Transparency, Simplicity, Responsiveness/Agility and Security/Reliability, and (2) flexibility potentials: Structural, Technological and Human flexibility potentials. [ ... ]

2009/10/28 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Supply chain risk in turbulent environments

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What is supply chain risk in turbulent environments really…simply old wine in new bottles or something profoundly new? [ ... ]

2009/10/26 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

A conceptual model of Supply Chain Flexibility

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What do you do when you find two research papers by the same three authors, published the same year, in two different journals, with almost the same title? [ ... ]

2009/10/19 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Transportation Lifelines and Critical Infrastructure

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This is the first paper that sparked my research interest in transportation vulnerability, and what would later become the focus area of my research: the cost of transportation vulnerability and the benefit of transportation reliability. [ ... ]

2009/09/28 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Supply chain agility - Risk mitigation and response

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How does company culture shape a firm’s risk mitigation and response, and thus, how does company culture shape a firm’s supply chain agility? [ ... ]

2009/09/14 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Is Sheffi's Resilient Enterprise the answer to supply chain risk?

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Building a resilient enterprise is an enterprise-wide undertaking that is about so much more than simply preparing a company for disruptions. [ ... ]

2009/08/31 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

What's so special about this Paul Kleindorfer?

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Apparently there must be something really special about Paul Kleindorfer. Otherwise there would be no reason for Morris A Cohen and Howard Kunreuther to write their tribute to him. [ ... ]

2009/08/24 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Catastrophic events in supply chains

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Finding the right facility location is difficult enough. Keeping it safe is even more difficult. One of the building bricks of the this article is the identification of so-called key supply chain locations. [ ... ]

2009/08/17 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Risk management: core competence?

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Blindly minimizing risk is a losing proposition in the long term, and uncertainty or risk are at the root of opportunity towards new profitable enterprises. Risk minimizing does not equal profit maximizing. [ ... ]

2009/08/10 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Measuring supply chain risk management

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There can be no generally valid risk for all types of supply chains, but risks must be defined from within the context of the supply chain that is the subject of analysis. [ ... ]