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Committed Americans and Trusting Germans

Obviously, selecting the right third-party logistics provider (3PL) for your supply chain is an important decision in supply chain risk management, but not every country decides in the same manner. While Americans focus on commitment, Germans appear to rely more on trust. Why is that?

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Supply Chain Risk Literature: a complete review

Finally, here it is, the complete review of some 160 or so articles in supply chain risk and risk management.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Contingent flexibility
Can contingency planning increase flexibility and minimize risk exposure to supply chain disruptions[...]
Sustainable supply chains
Sustainability has become a huge buzzword, both in today's business world and within the broader fac[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Risk Management Simplified
Risk management. Why make it difficult when you can make it easy? That is perhaps what Andy Osborne [...]
Resilience times four
Resilience. It is not so much about reducing the number of things that go wrong, but it is about imp[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2009 - Countries at risk?
How will the current financial downturn affect supply chains? That's what we all wonder about, isn't[...]
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
Sparse transportation networks and disruptions
The vulnerability of the transportation network as part of the supply chain is of particular interes[...]
Overcoming locational disadvantage
Following up my previous post, Sparse transportation networks - a recipe for supply chain disruption[...]