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Posts inspired by academic articles I have read

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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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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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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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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Perspectives on risk management in supply chains

Today’s article is actually not an article on it’s own, but an editorial to a special 2009 issue of the Journal of Operations Management, dedicated to supply chain risk.

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Road Vulnerability

Today we are going back in time, to one of the seminal articles in road vulnerability. It is a conceptual paper that provides the basis for why road vulnerability needs to be a more important issue .

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Emergency Logistics

Can commercial logistics’ ideas and solutions work in humanitarian supply chains? No. Why? Well, perhaps they could work, but in most cases they won’t.

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Mitigating supply chain disruptions

Christopher Tang from UCLA talks about three strategies for building a robust supply chain, related to (1) supply, (2) product, and (3) demand.

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Supply, Demand, and … “Miscellanous” Risk?

I’ve said so before, sometimes new articles are found in new and unlikely places and here is a chance to learn something new.

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Risk and Uncertainty in Supply Chain Management

I am very much impressed with this extensive literature study on risk and uncertainty within Supply Chain Management. It is – by my judgement – better than Vanany et al. (2009).

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Critical: Beer Distribution

Beer distribution is a sector that will be highly affected by a supply chain disruption…in the UK. You could even say that beer distribution is part of the UK critical infrastructure.

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Black Swan Events

Black Swan events – should we even bother? These events are practically impossible to predict, so instead of spending our efforts on quantifying and estimating them, maybe we should just let them happen?

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Graph Theory to the rescue

While I know that Graph Theory has many applications, I never expected to see it in Supply Chain Management.

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Supply Chain Flexibility in Strategic Networks

What fascinates me with this paper are (1) the parameters defining supply chain flexibility: Transparency, Simplicity, Responsiveness/Agility and Security/Reliability, and (2) flexibility potentials: Structural, Technological and Human flexibility potentials.

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Rigorous Risk Management

Risk management is emerging as a key focus area for corporations, especially in terms of the extended supply chain. As they take on expanded responsibilities for global sourcing, supply chain managers are also increasingly required to manage risk in terms of brand, reputation, and ethical sourcing, not just procurement and purchasing risks.

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Supply chain risk in turbulent environments

What is supply chain risk in turbulent environments really…simply old wine in new bottles or something profoundly new?

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply Chain Risk: Product Design Changes
Supply Chain Risk Management has emerged as an important source of competitive advantage and an effe[...]
Economies of integration
Logistics is no longer what it used to be and logistics today plays a much more important and strate[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review - Fraud Risk
Last year I was approached by Gower Publishing and invited to review their Short Guides to Business [...]
Supply Chain Risk - the forgotten discipline
No, it's not that supply chain risk is a forgotten discipline, it' is well and alive an kicking, it'[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
ISO 28002 – Supply Chain Resilience
Have you heard of ISO 28002?  No? You should take note of this standard, because the ISO 28000 serie[...]
Assess the vulnerability of your production system
So far I have reviewed "international" literature and web sites, and it is only fitting that now it [...]
from HERE and THERE
Another volcanic ash cloud crisis?
Rewind your thoughts one year: Iceland. Volcano eruption. Air travel. Then look at today's news. Are[...]
Impact assessment of road transportation projects
The idea of an impact assessment, often also referred to as cost-benefit analysis, is to assess all [...]