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A conceptual model of Supply Chain Flexibility

Posted on 2009-10-26 by

What do you do when you find two research papers by the same three authors, published the same year, in two different journals, with almost the same title?

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Tags: Duclos Leslie K, flexibility, Lummus Rhonda R, research blogging, supply chain flexibility, Vokurka Robert J

Transportation Lifelines and Critical Infrastructure

Posted on 2009-10-19 by

This is the first paper that sparked my research interest in transportation vulnerability, and what would later become the focus area of my research: the cost of transportation vulnerability and the benefit of transportation reliability.

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Tags: critical infrastructure, Dalziell Erica, new zealand, Nicholson Alan, research blogging, Seville Erica, transport vulnerability, transportation lifelines

Supply chain agility – Risk mitigation and response

Posted on 2009-09-28 by

How does company culture shape a firm’s risk mitigation and response, and thus, how does company culture shape a firm’s supply chain agility?

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Tags: Braunscheidel Michael J, research blogging, risk mitigation, supply chain agility, supply chain flexibility, supply chain risk, supply chain risk research, Suresh Nallan C

Sheffi’s Resilient Enterprise and supply chain risk

Posted on 2009-09-14 by

Building a resilient enterprise is an enterprise-wide undertaking that is about so much more than simply preparing a company for disruptions.

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Tags: flexibility, research blogging, resilience, Rice James B, Sheffi Yossi, supply chain disruption, supply chain flexibility, supply chain resilience, supply chain risk, supply chain vulnerability

What’s so special about this Paul Kleindorfer?

Posted on 2009-08-31 by

Apparently there must be something really special about Paul Kleindorfer. Otherwise there would be no reason for Morris A Cohen and Howard Kunreuther to write their tribute to him.

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Tags: Cohen Morris A, global supply chains, Kleindorfer Paul R, Kunreuther Howard, research blogging, risk management, supplier relationships, supply chain disruption, supply chain risk

Catastrophic events in supply chains

Posted on 2009-08-24 by

Finding the right facility location is difficult enough. Keeping it safe is even more difficult. One of the building bricks of the this article is the identification of so-called key supply chain locations.

Risk management: core competence?

Posted on 2009-08-17 by

Blindly minimizing risk is a losing proposition in the long term, and uncertainty or risk are at the root of opportunity towards new profitable enterprises. Risk minimizing does not equal profit maximizing.

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Tags: competitive advantage, Lessard Donald, Lucea Rafael, research blogging, risk management, supply chain risk, supply chain risk management, supply chain risk research

Measuring supply chain risk management

Posted on 2009-08-10 by

There can be no generally valid risk for all types of supply chains, but risks must be defined from within the context of the supply chain that is the subject of analysis.

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Tags: Brindley Clare, research blogging, risk management, Ritchie Bob, supply chain performance, supply chain risk, supply chain risk management, supply chain risk research

Supply Chain Risk Management in six steps

Posted on 2009-08-03 by

Supply management is not just about acquiring goods and services at the best possible price. It’s also about identifying possible disruptions to the supply chain and taking steps to mitigate them. While the article may be lacking in academic depth, it makes up for it in its hands-on managerial approach.

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Tags: Cantrell George, Kiser James, supplier evaluation, supplier relationships, supply chain risk, supply chain risk management

Measuring supply chain risk management

Posted on 2009-07-29 by

Each individual supply chain is unique in certain respects and this uniqueness may require unique approaches to the management of the risks involved.

Corporate vulnerability

Posted on 2009-07-24 by

In this study, Svensson investigates the areas, the causes and the contingency planning of corporate vulnerability in upstream and downstream supply chains.Corporate vulnerability in supply chains stems from time dependence, functional dependence and relational dependence.

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Tags: contingency planning, corporate vulnerability, research blogging, risk management, supply chain risk research, supply chain vulnerability, Svensson Göran, vulnerability

A supply chain is never stronger than the weakest link

Posted on 2009-07-17 by

The article is geared towards company CEOs, advising them not to get too detached from supply management, but rather to actively engage in their company’s supply chain management, particularly in businesses like manufacturing, retail and distribution.

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Tags: Dittmann Paul, knowledge management, Mentzer John T, Slone Reuben E

Supply chain management – the new research cocktail?

Posted on 2009-07-01 by

Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way that is focused on theory building based on learned borrowing from other disciplines. That is how academians can breathe new life into the study of supply chain management.

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Tags: Buddress Lee, Kuhn Thomas, research blogging, Smith Michael E, Stock James

Supply chain flexibility – a complete literature review?

Posted on 2009-06-29 by

Someone had to come up with this, it was just a matter of time, and it is no suprise that this article comes from India, one of the major providers of global outsourcing for many industries.

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Tags: agile, agility, Babu A Subash, flexibility, flexible, lean, More Dileep, research blogging, robust, robustness, supply chain flexibility

Strategic Alliances: Trust Control Risk

Posted on 2009-06-25 by

Risk perception and risk management are important subjects in management and strategy studies. Alliances are inherently a risky strategy, since the failure rate of alliances is higher than that of a single firm.

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Tags: behaviour control, competence trust, Das T K, goodwill trust, output control, performance risk, relational risk, research blogging, social control, Teng Bing-Sheng

Biting the hand that feeds. All firms are snakes.

Posted on 2009-06-23 by

‘All firms are snakes’. So says Paul D. Cousins in A conceptual model for managing long-term inter-organisational relationships, published in 2002. ‘They are maximisers and satisfiers concerned with their own survival and self-interest’.

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Tags: Cousins Paul D, game theory, research blogging, supplier relationships

Does product design impact supply chain risk?

Posted on 2009-06-22 by

What is in the supply chain is determined by a design process, and consequently, is it possible to design supply chain risk out of (or in to) the supply chain?

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Tags: Burnes Bernard, Christopher Martin, Khan Omera, research blogging, risk, supply chain risk

The latest trends in logistics and SCM research

Posted on 2009-06-19 by

What is at the forefront of current research in supply chain management and logistics right now? I know, thanks to to Gyöngi Kovács at interorganisational.org, who attended the NOFOMA 2009 conference.

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Tags: Kovács Gyöngiy, logistics, nofoma

Resilience revisited

Posted on 2009-06-18 by

How many ways are there for defining vulnerability and criticality, really? Traditionally, risk matrixes have a likelihood/impact approach, but not always. Yesterday, I was examining a criticality/vulnerability matrix.

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Tags: business continuity, critical infrastructure, criticality, Dalziell Erica, disaster recovery, preparedness, research blogging, resilient organisations, Seville Erica, susceptibility, vulnerability

The six ways of dealing with risk

Posted on 2009-06-13 by

Avoid, Reduce, Transfer and Retain or Accept are the classic four ways of dealing with risk in a risk matrix. However, there are two more: Exploit and Ignore.

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Tags: DeLoach James W., research blogging, risk, risk management, supply chain risk, Tomlin Brian

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