Yearly Archives: 2010

Pyramidal thoughts

If you are a supply chain or logistics academic or researcher, looking for a new research strand or looking for a new theoretical approach to preparedness and recovery, then yes, this is it.

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Contingent flexibility

Can contingency planning increase flexibility and minimize risk exposure to supply chain disruptions?

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Managing supply chains in times of crisis

How do you prepare a supply chain for a crisis, and how do you manage a supply chain when the unexpected hits you?

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Risk Disablers

A new framework for the interpretation of supply chain risk mitigation measures? Interpreted structural modelling.

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Community resilience in times of disaster

Can public-private partnerships improve community resilience? In order to achieve community resilience public and private owners of critical infrastructures and key resources must work together, before, during and after a disaster.

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Certain death: Not risky. Uncertain death: risky.

It is only when the consequences of actions and events are uncertain that these actions and events are truly risky.

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Information Risk Management

The article highlights that information risks are interrelated and that one factor (or “enabler”) cannot be mitigated without taking into account all the other factors that contribute to or are dependent on this factor.

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Risk Analysis of Critical Infrastructures

This article presents a new conceptual approach and extended analytical tool for risks in critical infrastructures, and shows how external factors are a major contributor to the risk and interconnectedness of critical infrastructures.

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Less cost and less disruptions?

If you know that your shipment will arrive late, you are perhaps less concerned with not being just in time? The Danish shipping giant Maersk has halved its top cruising speed over the last two years, thus cutting fuel costs, cutting emissions and perhaps cutting disruptions costs, too?

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Supply Chain Risk: Invasive Species

The global network of ships criss-crossing the oceans provide perhaps the most important mode of transportation for the spread of invasive species that “hitch-hike” with these ships.

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2nd Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar

The main focus of this seminar is how leading companies are tackling the many critical risks to their supply chains which they are facing in this current time of crisis and economic instability.

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A note to my readers

I’m sorry for not posting here as frequently as I perhaps should. I’m moving house and I’ve been renovating my new apartment every day after work for the past two weeks, leaving little time for much else besides work than a few hours of well-deserved and highly-needed sleep.

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Resilience Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake

The recent earthquake in Haiti is a poignant reminder of how vulnerable a country is when it is facing disaster on a grand scale.

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If the UK goes cold, blame me

The BBC reports that National Grid has issued its latest “balancing alert” on gas supplies. Unusually cold weather has hit big Norwegian gas field Ormen Lange and the Nyhamna gas processing centre, hitting North Sea gas flows from Norway at a time of increased consumption.

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The Definition of Agility

This blog has previously reported profusely on flexibility, let alone resilience and robustness, but has severely neglected agility. With this post, I intend to take a closer look at what it means to be agile. This is the only reference I have found that properly differentiates between agility and flexibility and what being agile actually entails.

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No grit No roads No show?

No grit means no cleared roads means no one able to get anywhere and a no-show of people everywhere. Employees not coming to work because of extreme weather will cost the UK £12,000,000,000,000.

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Security and continuity of supply

Today’s paper describes how Finland views logistics and supply as important to national security and how the LOGHU project was created to develop a framework for identification and ranking of threats and corresponding countermeasures.

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SME: A supply chain risk?

Does having Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in your supply chain constitute an increased exposure to supply chain risk?

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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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Does a blog have a supply chain?

Is it possible to say that a blog has a supply chain? And if that is the case, are blogs exposed to supply chain risks? If that is the case, are blogs exposed to supply chain risks? This slightly humorous post takes a look at my blog from a supply chain perspective.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Managing risk together
Purchasing theory... I have to admit it's not one of my particular strongholds, but several of my re[...]
Supply chain management - the new research cocktail?
Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way that is focused on theory buil[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: Handbook of Transportation Engineering
Comprehensive and all-encompassing, the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz (editor)[...]
Book Review: HBR on Crisis Management
Close calls and near misses are not unusual in the business world, but how do companies deal with th[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Calculating the Value-at-Risk
Some of you may remember that I posted about the SCOR Framework for Supply Chain Risk Management ear[...]
The supply chain of the future
A recent report by IBM, referenced by Supply Chain Digest in IBM Lays Out its Vision for the Supply [...]
from HERE and THERE
Extreme Weather Hazards and Transportation Vulnerability
Weather Extremes: Assessment of Impacts on Transport Systems and Hazards for European Regions. That [...]
Sparse transportation networks - a nightmare
E6 Steinkjer Løsberga
Now it has happened again. Hardly a week goes by in Norway without a major supply chain disruption. [...]