Yearly Archives: 2009

2009 – looking back

Time for a short review of 2009, looking back at how this blog has evolved over the past 12 months and where it may be headed in the near future. This blog has seen quite a change during 2009 and by the looks of it, it is headed in the right direction, but will my readers follow?

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Happy Holidelays!

We rarely see news flashes of truck drivers stuck in snow, or perishable goods that has to be scrapped. That is not news that sells. What does sell are passengers and people, but should they really count so much?

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Book Review: HBR on Crisis Management

The closure of SAAB is a major crisis by all standards, and is a fitting reminder that this 10-year old book will never go put of date. Why and how do some companies survive, and some not? This book sheds some light on this. Close calls and near misses are not unusual in the business world, but how do companies deal with them?

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SAAB no more…

What do you when your major customer goes bust? How do you cope with finding a new business partner? How do you react when a major competitor is no more? SAAB is history. What will happen to its supply chain?

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Blog Review: Contemplating…Ken Simpson

Ken is a freelance management consultant living in Australia. He specializes in the field of Resilience/Continuity Management. His blog is a must read for the business continuity professional seeking a wider perspective.

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Risk Management in Maritime Transportation Networks

Merchant shipping and port services play a key role in worldwide supply chain and logistics activities, and many industries are reliant on a well-coordinated, time and cost-efficient performance of maritime transport, storage and distribution processes.

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Risk and resilience in maritime logistics

Risks in maritime supply chains are perhaps an underresearched area and consequently, the article outlines a rationale for why it is necessary to develop competence about risk, vulnerability and resilience management in maritime supply chains.

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Risk and vulnerability in maritime supply chains

The complex interaction of ports, maritime operations and supply chains creates vulnerabilities that requires analysis that extends beyond the immediate visible.

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Risks in maritime supply chains

Sea transport constitutes the major part of almost every supply chain, and is thus a major contributor to risks in the supply chain.

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Call for papers: Risk Management in Supply Chains

The recent trends such as offshore manufacturing, lean sourcing and global outsourcing has considerably increased the risk exposure of firms and their supply chains, and operational research has become one of the most indispensable tools in business.

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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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Dignitary Visits and Supply Chain Disruptions

Today is an important day here in Norway. Some Mr. Barack Obama comes for a visit to collect some Nobel Peace Prize, creating all sorts of havoc in the transportation system of our small capital along the way.

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Book Review: HBR on Supply Chain Management

The overarching theme of this book is the development of supply chain relationships for better supply chain performance, and one of the best insurances against supply chain risk is developing relationships that perform well, in good times, and in bad times.

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Book Review: Managing External Risk

You don’t need to have an MBA to be enable to enjoy this book, common sense and curiosity about the inner workings of business decisions are enough. I learned a lot from this book.

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Risks and supply chains… stochastically speaking2

Little did I know when I started reading this paper that it was written by he who is the editor for Finance in the Journal of Applied Stochastic Models for Business and Industry and who has published 12 books and more than 250 papers on risk management and stochastic modelling in operations, insurance and finance.

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Supply Chain Confidence

Traditionally, papers on supply chain risk use the “classic” supply-demand-internal-external scheme for classifying supply supply chain risk sources. Christopher and Lee do not. They see risk as primarily related to uncertainty, volatility and turbulence

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The @risk Blog

It is always nice to find blogs on supply chain risk written by a professional with extensive knowledge of the field he is covering. Kevin Cornish’s @risk blog is such a blog. Judging by the list of tags in his sidebar there is very little that escapes his watchful eye, with topics touching upon anything ranging from employee absentism, food safety, to the more obvious: risk mitigation and supplier risk.

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Risk & Vulnerability

Supply chains are increasingly becoming complex webs and networks and are no longer straightforward chains with just a few links between supplier and customer.

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Risky ramblings

Here, six areas of supply chain risk are highlighted and discussed at length, showing how they are endemic to the extended enterprise, and indeed, a lengthy discussion it is.

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MITIP 2010 – Call for Papers

The MITIP conferences have proven to be an important forum for researchers from academia and industry to present the results of their work, and to inspire a creative dialogue between the industry and the academic world.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Transportation - the forgotten staple
What a difference a title makes. I only found this article because it was referenced in another arti[...]
Resilience X 10
Transport network resilience has 10 properties. So says Pamela Murray-Tuite in her 2006 article A Co[...]
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 [...]
Book Review: Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability
Another book by someone from the ISCRiM group? No, not this time, or perhaps, yes, after all. Managi[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Managing supply chain risk
In September and October 2009 the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 500 company executives with r[...]
ISO 28002 – Supply Chain Resilience
Have you heard of ISO 28002?  No? You should take note of this standard, because the ISO 28000 serie[...]
from HERE and THERE
Oslo airport shut-down...lessons learned?
Two days ago, Norway's major airport, Oslo Gardermoen (OSL) practically shut down due to weather con[...]
NOFOMA - The Nordic Logistics Research Network
The Nordic Logistics Research Network (NOFOMA) is a network of Nordic researchers within the field o[...]