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Managing risk together

Posted on 2010-04-23 by

How do risks in supply relationships and and organizational learning play out in risk management when supply chain partners collaborate and develop a learning supply chain?

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Tags: Hallikas Jukka, Puumalainen Kaisu, research blogging, supplier relationships, supply chain collaboration, Vesterinen Toni, Virolainen Veli-Matti

Not all risk is risk

Posted on 2010-04-16 by

How to define, understand and describe risk

The article lists and discusses eight risk definitions, and then suggests an alternative and comprehensive definition that captures all aspects of risk.

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Tags: Aven Terje, research blogging, risk, risk management, uncertainty

Supply chain vulnerability: Mitigation strategies

Posted on 2010-04-13 by

Which mitigation strategy that works best when faced with which supply chain catastrophe? This is a paper that every supply chain manager should read, at least once.

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Tags: global supply chains, Kumar Sanjay, research blogging, Stecke Kathryn E, supply chain disruption, supply chain performance, supply chain vulnerability, vulnerability

Risk versus vulnerability

Posted on 2010-04-09 by

In this paper safety and security are brought together in a unifying risk and vulnerability framework that covers both accidental and malicious events.

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Tags: Aven Terje, critical infrastructure, research blogging, risk, risk analysis, vulnerability, vulnerability analysis

Friend or foe or both?

Posted on 2010-04-04 by

Supply chain collaboration, easy or difficult? And can it really work? In theory yes, but in reality? Maybe not.

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Tags: Ashayeri J, Gattorna John, Kampstra R J, research blogging, supplier relationships, supply chain collaboration

Flexible supply chains can indeed “flex” their supply chain management muscles (pun intended) and show the strength that lies in them. With transportation being a key ingredient in any supply chain, much of this strength comes from flexibility in transportation.

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Tags: Bateman Nicola, logistics, logistics uncertainty, Mason Robert J, Naim Mohamed, Potter Andrew, research blogging, supply chain flexibility, transport uncertainty

Shrink Shrank Shrunk

Posted on 2010-03-29 by

This is one of the articles – if not THE article – that paved the way for many frameworks for risks in supply chains, most notably the supply-demand-process-control model.

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Tags: Mason-Jones Rachel, research blogging, supply chain uncertainty, supply chain visibility, Towill Dennis

Transportation – the forgotten staple

Posted on 2010-03-28 by

Transportation is a staple ingredient in supply chains and uncertainty is a staple ingredient in risk assessments, and consequently, transportation uncertainty is a staple ingredient in supply chain risks.

Ménage à trois – the good, the bad and the ugly

Posted on 2010-03-27 by

Triads in supply networks: Theorizing buyer-supplier-relationships by Thomas Y Choi and Zhaohui Wu is a fascinating read and a brilliant attempt at classifying buyer-supplier triads into nine distinctively different configurations.

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Tags: Choi Thomas Y, research blogging, supplier relationships, Wu Zhaohui

Humanitarian aid is better when decentralized

Posted on 2010-03-25 by

Decentralization, pre-positioning and pooling of relief items are key success factors for dramatic improvements in humanitarian operations performance in disaster response and recovery.

Call for papers: Humanitarian Logistics

Posted on 2010-03-21 by

Now there is a new source for knowledge on disaster management and humanitarian logistics, the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (JHLSCM).

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Tags: disaster recovery, emergency management, humanitarian logistics, humanitarian supply chains, humlog, Kovács Gyöngiy, Spens Karen, supply chain journals

Pyramidal thoughts

Posted on 2010-03-10 by

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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Tags: crisis management, disaster recovery, preparedness, research blogging, Richey R Glenn Jr

Contingent flexibility

Posted on 2010-03-08 by

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

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Tags: contingency planning, flexibility, Hanna Joe B, research blogging, risk management, Skipper Joseph B, supply chain disruption, supply chain flexibility, supply chain risk

Managing supply chains in times of crisis

Posted on 2010-03-05 by

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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Tags: Capar Ismail, crisis management, Narayanan Arunachalam, Natarajarathinam Malini, research blogging, risk management, supply chain resilience, supply chain risk

Risk Disablers

Posted on 2010-03-03 by

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

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Tags: Banwet D K, Faisal Mohd Nishat, interpretive structural modelling, research blogging, risk management, Shankar Ravi, supply chain risk

Community resilience in times of disaster

Posted on 2010-03-01 by

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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Tags: critical infrastructure, Kolluru Ramesh, research blogging, resilience, Smith Mark, Stewart Geoffrey T, supply chain resilience

Certain death: Not risky. Uncertain death: risky.

Posted on 2010-02-26 by

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

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Tags: Aven Terje, research blogging, risk analysis, risk management, supply chain risk

Information Risk Management

Posted on 2010-02-23 by

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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Tags: Banwet D K, Faisal Mohd Nishat, graph theory, interpretive structural modelling, research blogging, risk management, Shankar Ravi, supply chain risk

Risk Analysis of Critical Infrastructures

Posted on 2010-02-20 by

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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Tags: critical infrastructure, Kröger Wolfgang, research blogging, risk analysis, supply chain risk

Supply Chain Risk: Invasive Species

Posted on 2010-02-12 by

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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Tags: Blasius Bernd, Gastner Michael T., global supply chains, Kaluza Pablo, Kölzsch Andrea, maritime logistics, maritime supply chains, research blogging, supply chain risk

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