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Finding academic articles without academic journals

Posted on 2009-05-13 by

Many management or supply chain related websites provide the same articles for free (or sometimes at a prenium). Formatting and graphics is usually stripped out, but the content is till there.

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Tags: supply chain research, supply chain risk

The ISCRiM Newsletter 1/2009

Posted on 2009-05-12 by

As a researcher within supply chain risk, I find the ISCRiM Newsletters a valuable source of information, particularily for academia-related news. The International Supply Chain Risk Management Network (ISCRiM) is a network of academians interested in how to handle different types of risks in the supply chain. The main purpose of the ISCRIM-network is to speed up, and improve, the research within “Supply Chain Risk Management”

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Tags: iscrim, supply chain risk

Risk Avoidance – is that all there is?

Posted on 2009-03-26 by

The opposite of risk avoidance is risk ignorance. More often than not businesses simply accept that they are exposed to risks and do not bother to spend much effort on assessing and mitigating these risks.

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Tags: risk management

The IRM Risk Management Standard

Posted on 2009-03-22 by

Good corporate governance requires that companies adopt a methodical approach to risk management, and the IRM Risk Management Standard provides the toolbox. The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) published a Risk Management Standard in 2002.

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Tags: irm, risk, risk analysis, risk management, risk management standard, supply chain risk, the institute of risk management

The 2009 Nordic Business Continuity Symposium

Posted on 2009-03-21 by

I guess this will be THE gathering of who’s who in the Nordic Business Continuity commuity, and I wish I could be there, listen to the speakers, exchange ideas and simply, be inspired.

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Tags: business continuity, conference

Book Review: Transportation Systems Security

Posted on 2009-03-19 by

This book, Transportation Systems Security by by Allan McDougall and Robert Radvanovsky is not what I thought it would be, but it’s not the books fault, I have to admit that much. It’s the classic misunderstanding of the difference of the terms “safety” and “security”.

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Tags: critical infrastructure, McDougall Allan, Radvanovsky Robert, transport books, transport vulnerability, transportation security

Transportation reliability and vulnerability

Posted on 2009-03-18 by

This is a philosophical essay on transportation vulnerability, where three fields or subjects are brought together : engineering (reliability and vulnerability), economics (cost and benefits) and politics (decision making).The research essay aims at taking reliability and vulnerability into the realm of cost-benefit analysis to serve as decision support.

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Tags: Bentham Jeremy B, Bruno Giordano, cost-benefit analysis, Feyerabend Paul, Kuhn Thomas, philosophy of science, Popper Karl, reliability, transport economics, transport vulnerability, vulnerability

The Business Continuity Institute

Posted on 2009-03-18 by

The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 to enable individual members to obtain guidance and support from fellow business continuity practitioners. I came across this website while searching for this book on Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain.

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Tags: business continuity, business continuity networks

Managing Supply Chain Risk

Posted on 2009-03-15 by

Did you know that the Supply Chain Council (SCS) has extended their renown SCOR-model to Supply Chain Risk Management? This presentation from the the SCS website will detail the changes to the SCOR model to account for Risk Management and how it integrates with the SCOR model risk enablers.

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Tags: risk, risk analysis, risk management, scor, supply chain council, supply chain risk

D-Day for Norway’s Transport Infrastructure

Posted on 2009-03-13 by

Norway’s transport infrastructure is way behind much of Europe, but today Norway’s government is presenting it’s development plans for the Norwegian transport infrastructure for 2010 to 2019 (Nasjonal Transportplan 2010-2019).

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Tags: Boge Knut, nasjonal transportplan, ntp, ntp 2010-2019, samferdsel, statens vegvesen, transport economics

Magnified Risk in Multi-Enterprise Supply Chains

Posted on 2009-03-06 by

Supply chain owners need to view their supply chain as a community, because supply chains are interconnected, and thus, magnify risk in multi-enterprise supply chains. Even if the manufacturing takes place out-house, product design should be kept in-house.

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Tags: community supply chain management, supply chain risk

Call for papers – MITIP 2009

Posted on 2009-03-05 by

The factory of the future is calling for a shift in strategic vision. Where do we go from here and what does the future hold?

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Tags: conference, mitip2009, Pinto Roberto

Supply chains and barcodes

Posted on 2009-03-03 by

Have you ever thought about how barcodes are a major factor in performance of supply chains? How can you keep track of all the items flowing through the supply chain?Using a barcode scanner and inventory control software it is easy to check where any item is at any given moment.

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Tags: barcode scanners, inventory control software, vendor managed inventory

The curse of being oil-rich

Posted on 2009-03-02 by

Ah…the complacency of being oil rich. So complacent, in fact, that we forget about our infrastructure.

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Tags: samferdsel, statens vegvesen, transport economics

Fewer suppliers mean fewer choices for consumers

Posted on 2009-03-01 by

The financial crisis has created an supply chain crisis, says The Economist. What used to be a banking crisis is now a manufacturing crisis and may soon be a supplier crisis.

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Tags: business continuity, economic recession, supply chain disruption, supply chain risk

The effects of brand reputation on supply chain risk

Posted on 2009-02-27 by

One of the major fallouts from the current finical crisis is the loss of brand reputation, and it may not even be the company’s fault. SAAB owes money to some 1400 debtors, and rumors have it that some suppliers have stopped deliveries because of delinquent payments.

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Tags: business continuity, saab, supply chain disruption, supply chain risk

How to count money spent on road investments

Posted on 2009-02-24 by

Norway spent less money on road investments in 2007 than in 1995, that is, if you count in % of GDP. Is that a correct way of looking at it? Is that a correct way of looking at it?

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Tags: samferdsel, statens vegvesen, transport economics

The worst roads in the world’s richest country

Posted on 2009-02-23 by

It is not the planning authorities or the central government who decides infrastructure development in Norway, but the local politicians. To put it simple, what in the US is known as “pork barrel spending” is what rules many of Norway’s infrastructure development projects. Why?

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Tags: Boge Knut, cost-benefit analysis, Helland Leif, research blogging, samferdsel, Sørensen Rune, statens vegvesen, transport economics

7 out of 10 businesses without a continuity plan

Posted on 2009-02-23 by

Is ICT forgotten in supply chain risk management? I hope not. ICT is an integral part of any supply chain. In my humble opinion, not having an ICT contingency plan show how little businesses understand (or care) about their supply chain.

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Tags: business continuity, critical infrastructure, supply chain risk, supply chain vulnerability

Economists versus Technocrats – who wins?

Posted on 2009-02-12 by

In the current financial downturn, much pressure has been on the government (here in Norway, and I bet elsewhere too) to initiate public works projects or other public investment projects in order to create or save jobs.

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Tags: cost-benefit analysis, jernbaneverket, public investment projects, public works, quality assurance, transport economics

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