Daily Archives: 2008-06-27

Location, location, location

How do companies or businesses located in such places adapt to the terms and conditions of their supply chain, how do they hedge against the risk of supply chain disruptions, how are they impacted if there is a disruption?

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Assess the vulnerability of your production system

The paper defines the concept of vulnerability as it applies to production systems and is built around three concepts: A taxonomy of vulnerability factors as a basis for or guideline in establishing scenarios.
An input/output model to describe production systems.
A two-step vulnerability analysis for productions systems.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
How to secure your supply chain - 7/7
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Risk and Supply Chain Management - A Research Agenda
After a long break from reviewing actual supply chain risk literature, today I would like to return [...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Supply Chain Logistics Risk in Germany
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Book Review: Single Point of Failure
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
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The supply chain of the future
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from HERE and THERE
CSCMP Europe 2009 Conference
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ETC 2012 - Call for papers
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