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2009/11/06 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Critical: Beer Distribution

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Beer distribution is a sector that will be highly affected by a supply chain disruption…in the UK. You could even say that beer distribution is part of the UK critical infrastructure. [ ... ]

2009/11/05 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Black Swan Events

Black Swan events – should we even bother? These events are practically impossible to predict, so instead of spending our efforts on quantifying and estimating them, maybe we should just let them happen? [ ... ]

2009/11/04 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Graph Theory to the rescue

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

2009/11/02 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

The seven ways of Risk Management

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Risk management is emerging as a key focus area for corporations, especially in terms of the extended supply chain. As they take on expanded responsibilities for global sourcing, supply chain managers are also increasingly required to manage risk in terms of brand, reputation, and ethical sourcing, not just procurement and purchasing risks. [ ... ]

2009/10/30 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Supply Chain Risk - Jetzt auf Deutsch

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Unbeknown to me – or perhaps I really should have known better – there appears to be a large body of supply chain risk research written in German, as I just recently discovered. [ ... ]

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? [ ... ]

2009/09/28 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? [ ... ]

2009/09/21 THIS and THAT

Bad locations - bad logistics?

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How are companies located in sparse transport networks affected by supply chain disruptions? This article develops a new framework for the categorization of supply chains, and introduces the notion of the constrained supply chain. [ ... ]

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. [ ... ]

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