
2010/03/16

BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
One of my readers suggested this book to me via a comment on my supply chain literature list pages, so I decided to find a copy for a proper review. Stephan M Wagner and Christoph Bode are renown authorities within supply chain risk research and as editors for Managing Risk and Security they have come up with a book that focuses specifically on security risks, as seen from the perspective of logistics service providers. And indeed, it was a suggestion well worth investigating, as supply chain security is something that every supply chain manager needs to take seriously.
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2009/11/04

from the LITERATURE
Graph Theory. In Supply Chain Management? It’s probably 10 years ago since last time I looked at Graph Theory. That was when I was writing my thesis for my MSc in GIS on Network Analysis in Raster GIS, and while I know that Graph Theory has many applications, I never expected to see it in Supply Chain Management. Now, Stephan M. Wagner and Nikrouz Neshat are using it in their 2009 paper Assessing the vulnerability of supply chains using graph theory. That is a novel approach, but does it work?
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2008/06/19

from the LITERATURE
Today’s journal article is from Germany. In An empirical investigation into supply chain vulnerability Stephan M. Wagner and Christoph Bode examine the relationship between a selection of supply chain characteristics and supply chain risks, and provide an empirical investigation into the supply chain vulnerability construct, based on a surveys and interviews of close to 5000 top-level executives.
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