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Supply Chain Nirvana

The supply chain is a firm’s core asset, and perhaps its most important asset, and a firm is only as good or as bad as its supply chain. In this tightly packed 300-page volume Sehgal shows how important it is to have a top-down-driven approach to supply chain management and how important it is to link strategy and execution, from the board room to the very last delivery guy.

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Book Review: Enterprise SCM

What we have here is a book that fully covers the complete setup of a supply chain from A to Z, with nothing left out, and while strategic considerations are not explicitly mentioned, implicitly they are taken care of.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
A Future Research Agenda for Supply Chain Risk
When Manuj and Mentzer (2008) wrote their article titled Global Supply Chain Risk Management, they [...]
Toy stories: lessons to be learned
Christmas. Toys. Two things that belong together. But it isn't always a happy story. Not only do sea[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: This is where raster GIS started...
...well not really, but Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling by Dana Tomlin spar[...]
Low Cost Country Sourcing
Low-cost countries. A dream for some and a nightmare for other others. What are typical supply chain[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply chain disruption risk on the rise
Global supply chains are increasingly becoming more vulnerable to potential disruption to trade, say[...]
A Decade of Living Dangerously
Do you remember the movie The Year of Living Dangerously with Mel Gibson? Topically unrelated maybe,[...]
from HERE and THERE
If the UK goes cold, blame me
Still thinking about my recent post on the importance of security of supply, I first added salt and [...]
Airports - vital to supply chains?
Is the temporary shut-down of Bangkok's two international airports important in a supply chain persp[...]