It’s Friday, and there hasn’t be a blog review for a long time, so perhaps it’s time to resurrect the “supply chain blogs of note” series that some time ago I said I would do every month, but have sadly neglected. My featured blog this month is the SCRMBlog by Daniel Stengel, as it happens perhaps my fiercest competitor in the supply chain risk blogging scene, if there indeed is such a scene. Daniel’s blog has existed for not more than a little over a year, but he has already made considerable impact, and I often find him reviewing papers I haven’t heard of yet, or worse, have heard of and put on my to-do list, but not yet blogged about, meaning that he beat me to the finish line. Well, Daniel, this post is for you.
First contact
Daniel left his first comment on my blog in February 2010 and he later contacted me in June 2010, when his blog was still young and searching for a direction.”I am a regular reader of your blog. A few month ago I started my own research career as a PhD student in Hamburg”, he wrote. “Already in the beginning I figured that it would be great to ‘publish’ some of my thoughts immediately to make a habit of it. So I started my blog on Supply Chain Risk Management.” So he said, and he has been blogging ever since.
Growing up
From his first hodgepodge of posts on everything beneath the supply chain sky I have seen his blog mature and grow into a valuable resource for those working with supply chain risk research. And while we are competing for the same turf, so to speak, I do not see him as adversary, but rather as a friend and a knowlegde base for widening my own horizon. Below are some of the items I wish I had thought of on my own blog.
Product design and supply chains
While I have reviewed Khan et al. (2008) on how product design affects supply chain risk, Daniel has taken a closer look at Poulin et al. (2006) and their view on the various types of personalization of products an how that affects supply network design. He has also reviewed Aitken et al. (2005) on multiple pipelines for multiple products. Both papers are an interesting addition to my post yesterday on supply and demand elasticity.
Supply Chain Conferences 2011
Have you made your (conference) travel plans yet? If not, or even if you already have, Daniel has a comprehensive list of supply chain and logistics conferences for 2011, which makes planning easy. He did this for 2010, and I can’t wait to see the 2012 list, which will save me some of my daily googling for conference news.
Strategic partnerships
Another paper I have overlooked, but which Daniel didn’t miss, is Christopher and Jüttner (2000) on developing strategic partnerships in supply chains, a paper that develops five key factors for a successful partnership. That for sure is a paper I need to include in my list of papers on supplier relationships.
Same but not the same
Sometimes it’s interesting to see how we review the same paper. While my review of Jüttner et al. (2003) on Supply Chain Risk Management: Outlining an Agenda for Future Research looked at risk sources and risk drivers, focusing on the figures, which I then used to develop my framework for mitgative and contingent actions, again a visual result, Daniel takes a more (con)textual approach to same subject matter. That is not always the case, and while I only briefly mention Tomlin (2006) and his evaluation of contingency and mitigation strategies for managing supply chain disruptions, Daniel has a full-fledged review of which strategy that works best.
Hidden, but not forgotten
On a final note, as a favor to Daniel, I will introduce you to his lesser known posts, that is least read posts, according to his website statistics for 2010: First, there is Sohdi and Tang (2009) on rethinking links in the supply chain. Second, we have Lee (2003) on aligning supply chain strategies with product uncertainties, and finally, Jang et al. (2002) on network design and production/distribution planning for a supply network. These are all papers well worth reading, and I’m glad that Daniel found them, and I’m happy to promote them on this blog.
Conclusion
Daniel I and I are both supply chain risk bloggers and working the same territory. Sometimes our paths (posts) cross each other, but most of the time they don’t. Daniel has short and succinct posts, while I tend to be more verbose. Overall, I think both our blogs complement each other very well, and Daniel has inspired not few of my own posts. To you, my reader, I suggest that you bookmark both, so you don’t miss out on anything.
Link
- scrmblog.com: SCRMBlog
Related posts
- husdal.com: The Supply Chain Matters blog
- husdal.com: Ken Simpson’s Contemplating Blog
