Yearly Archives: 2010

The impact of supply chain glitches

This is an investigation of the effects on shareholder wealth of supply chain glitches that resulted in production or shipment delays, using a sample of 519 announcements made during 1989-2000. On average, shareholder value is decrease by near 11% following an announcement of supply chain problems.

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London Olympics and Business Continuity

Are UK businesses, and in particular London businesses, unprepared for the London Olympics in 2012? A recent report by Deloitte would suggest so. Over two-thirds of large companies in the UK expect the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to have virtually no impact on their ability to operate “business as usual”.

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The impact of supply chain disasters

Disasters. The result: Damaged infrastructure. End result: Disrupted supply chains. But how do disasters really impact supply chains? Is it different upstream or downstream the supply chain?

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In memoriam David Kaye

I don’t always keep up with the subjects of my reviews, and today I was very saddened to learn that David Kaye passed away more than a year ago. David Kaye was a leading author, lecturer, examiner and workshop leader on risk management and business continuity subjects.

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It’s already happening…in Norway?

On a smarter planet, we can use tracking technology to track and trace our food as it makes its way through the supply chain from the farm to our table. It’s already happening in places like Canada, Norway, and Vietnam.

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Toy stories: lessons to be learned

How the toy industry handles supply chain risk is applicable to many other industries as well. While few of the risks faced by toy makers are unique to the industry, the combination of risks is daunting.

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Control or laissez-faire?

Supply networks are constantly changing. Perhaps not controlling, but letting things happen and letting supply networks emerge is the best management strategy?

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Supply Chain Risk Management Forum

The Supply Chain Risk Management Forum in Toronto, Canada on March 29, 2011 is a follow-up on last year’s successful Strategic Supply Chain Management Forum, and is focused specifically on a current critical issue: supply chain risk.

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Adaptation versus Transformation

Resilience. A key ingredient in supply chain risk management. Also a key ingredient in logistics risk management. Cognitive resilience, behavioral resilience and contextual resilience must all come together for a resilient enterprise to emerge.

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German Autos at risk? Perhaps not.

An empirical analysis of supply chain risk management in the German automotive industry shows that the group using reactive supply chain risk management seems to do better in terms of disruptions resilience or the reduction of the bullwhip effect, whereas the group pursuing preventive supply chain risk management seems to do better as to flexibility or safety stocks.

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Supply Chain Logistics Risk in Germany

What are the most common supply chain and logistics risks in Germany? What risks does the logistics industry perceive? This study separates business risks from logistics providers risk, that is a novel approach, and this is perhaps the most complete overview of supply chain and logistics risks I have seen to date.

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CALL for Papers: NOFOMA 2011

NOFOMA is the place to pick up the most recent trends in logistics and supply chain research and NOFOMA 2011 will be hosted in Harstad, Norway, June 9-10, 2011. It may be a bit early, but the deadline for paper submission is only some two months away.

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Six levels of risk management

In “Risk management in a dynamic society: a modelling problem” author Jens Rasmussen argues that risk management includes several levels ranging from legislators, over managers and work planners, to system operators.

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CPM 2010 East in NYC

The Contingency Planning & Management Conference (CPM 2010 EAST) held this November 3-4 in New York City, will bring together experts in risk management for advanced-level education on today’s hot topics

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Organizing Resilience

Resilience is what distinguishes those who fail from those who succeed. Resilience is not something remarkable or extraordinary, rather, it is a result of an organizational learning process.

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Book Review: Security Risk Management – Body of Knowledge

SRMBOK is a vast and practically all-encompassing repository of knowledge, filled with accepted best practices, innovations and research in the evolving field of security risk management.

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A new and better way of classifying and managing risks?

Risk. The probability of an event occurring and the consequences of the event occurring. Does it have to be like that or is there a different, or perhaps even a better way?

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The world we live in: Risk Society

We live in a world that is full of risk, risks that we to a large degree have created ourselves, and naturally occuring risk hardly exists anymore. That is a risk society.

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Single, sole, dual, multiple sourcing?

This paper examines the costs and benefits of single versus multiple sourcing strategies, dependent on probability and consequences of supply disruption, vendor price escalation, inventory and schedule issues, technology access and quality control.

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Can your business take a blow?

This is not so much a book about risk management in logistics, but more a book about resilience management in logistics, where the authors develop a brilliant framework for how to improve a company’s resilience.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
When your supplier goes bust...
...what do you do? Is so-called supplier default something you have even thought about? And what if [...]
Friend or foe or both?
Realities of supply chain collaboration
Supply chain collaboration, easy or difficult? And can it really work? In theory yes, but in reality[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
What are Logistics Clusters?
This is a guest post by Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logist[...]
Supply Chain Nirvana
Is there something like a Supply Chain Nirvana, where it all comes together and where a firm's suppl[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
In our interconnected world, safety, reliability and efficiency can only be secured through collabor[...]
The Benefits of Investing in Supply Chain Security
With the memory of attacks by Somali pirates still fresh in mind, supply chain security has come to [...]
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The 2009 Nordic Business Continuity Symposium
I guess this will be THE gathering of who's who in the Nordic Business Continuity commuity, and I wi[...]
Supply Chain Risk Management 2008
Supply Chain Risk Management 2008, 3rd & 4th November 2008, World Trade Centre, the Netherlands[...]