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Diamonds are forever – suppliers not

Supplier development and supplier performance are dependent on the current relationship life cycle phase. The different stages in the supplier relationship life cycle should play an important role in determining how the supply chain can be improved.

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Supply chain risk – in your head?

This article paints an interesting picture of how supply chain professionals view risk, which risk they perceive and what they do in reaction to these risks.

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When your supplier goes bust…

Supply chain risk management must look beyond the individual supplier and look at dependencies within the entire supplier portfolio. Such dependencies may not be obvious at first sight, and this paper presents one very good approach towards discovering these dependencies.

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Book Review: Managing Risk and Security

Many books on supply chain risk do not deal explicitly with supply chain security; at best it is one of many aspects of discussion. This books takes supply chain security a long step forward, as it provides a cross-section of current research and future issues.

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Graph Theory to the rescue

While I know that Graph Theory has many applications, I never expected to see it in Supply Chain Management.

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An empirical investigation into supply chain vulnerability

Drivers of supply chain vulnerability are 1) supply-side risk 2) demand-side risk, 3) catastrophic risk. Sources of risk are a) customer dependence and b) supplier dependence, d) supplier concentration and d) single sourcing and e) global sourcing.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
3PL - a risk orchestrator?
Historically, third-party logistics providers, or 3PLs, provided traditional logistics services, suc[...]
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[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: GIS for Transportation
Having been a student with Harvey Miller at the University of Utah 2000-2002 probably makes my revie[...]
Book review: Networks and Algorithms
If you are into network analysis of any kind, this book teaches you the basics. As the name implies,[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
When disaster strikes...
...how does the transportation network recover? And why are transportation networks so essential to [...]
Infrastructure - essential for competitiveness?
Regular readers of this blog may have noticed my regular rants about the state of the Norwegian infr[...]
from HERE and THERE
Suites - what suites?
I have been swamped with work this week. In fact, so swamped that I forgot to watch episode two of "[...]
Can we do without air traffic?
Travelers and businesses are waking up to a fourth day of no air traffic in Europe, and a fourth day[...]