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ERP consultants: A nightmare

Suitemates is produced by Kinaxis, a Canada-based company that delivers RapidResponse, an award-winning on-demand supply chain management tool. In Suitemates they poke fun at what they call Big ERP and how supply chain consulting companies supposedly work.

Posted in THIS and THAT


Shrink Shrank Shrunk

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.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS


Transportation – the forgotten staple

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.

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

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.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS


Humanitarian aid is better when decentralized

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

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Business Continuity in Global Supply Chains

Essentially, there is no difference between a business continuity plan for one organization, compared to a business continuity plan for a whole supply chain. What differs is the complexity

Posted in BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS


Supply Chain Risk Webinars

I do have a lecture on supply chain risk, but not in webinar style. Perhaps it’s time to reconsider.

Posted in THIS and THAT


Call for papers: Humanitarian Logistics

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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Better Alexa ranking – how to

Today I will share some personal thoughts on my blogging: The magic Alexa ranking, supposedly showing a website’s popularity on the Internet. But does Alexa ranking really matter? Is a high Alexa ranking really a quality sign? You know, Alexa is so easy to manipulate.

Posted in my BLOGGING


Published. Not perished.

Publish or perish? Publish. It has taken its time, but finally it is there, the book that has my chapter in it. This book links Virtual Enterprise Networks with Supply Chain Management and Risk Management in a cross-disciplinary fashion.

Posted in BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS


Book Review: Managing Risk and Security

Many books on supply chain risk do not deal explicitly with supply chain security; at best it is one of many aspects of discussion. This books takes supply chain security a long step forward, as it provides a cross-section of current research and future issues.

Posted in BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS


Book Review: The Geography of Transport Systems

This book will fascinate, because it so brilliantly explains, explores, researches and reviews the spatial impact of transportation systems and how they have shaped the world that surrounds us.

Posted in BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS


Pyramidal thoughts

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.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS


Contingent flexibility

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

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS


Managing supply chains in times of crisis

How do you prepare a supply chain for a crisis, and how do you manage a supply chain when the unexpected hits you?

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS


Risk Disablers

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

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS


Community resilience in times of disaster

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.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS


Certain death: Not risky. Uncertain death: risky.

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

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS


Information Risk Management

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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Risk Analysis of Critical Infrastructures

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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ARTICLES and PAPERS
A-maze-ing discoveries
Today's post is on how looking up new articles from reference lists can lead to amazing discoveries,[...]
Risks in maritime supply chains
Globalization and international trade is heavily reliant on safe and open waterways. Sea transport c[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Logistics Management and Strategy
Logistics Management and Strategy by Alan Harrison and Remko van Hoek does come at very hefty price,[...]
Book Review: How Nature Works
How Nature works is a fascinating book. I first heard of the late Per Bak and his sandpile theories [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
The supply chain of the future
Many global supply chains are not equipped to cope with the world we are entering. Most were enginee[...]