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Risk and vulnerability in maritime supply chains

Posted on 2009-12-15 by

The complex interaction of ports, maritime operations and supply chains creates vulnerabilities that requires analysis that extends beyond the immediate visible.

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Risks in maritime supply chains

Posted on 2009-12-14 by

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

Posted on 2009-12-13 by

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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Book Review: Enterprise SCM

Posted on 2009-12-11 by

What we have here is a book that fully covers the complete setup of a supply chain from A to Z, with nothing left out, and while strategic considerations are not explicitly mentioned, implicitly they are taken care of.

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Dignitary Visits and Supply Chain Disruptions

Posted on 2009-12-10 by

Today is an important day here in Norway. Some Mr. Barack Obama comes for a visit to collect some Nobel Peace Prize, creating all sorts of havoc in the transportation system of our small capital along the way.

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Book Review: HBR on Supply Chain Management

Posted on 2009-12-10 by

The overarching theme of this book is the development of supply chain relationships for better supply chain performance, and one of the best insurances against supply chain risk is developing relationships that perform well, in good times, and in bad times.

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Book Review: Managing External Risk

Posted on 2009-12-09 by

You don’t need to have an MBA to be enable to enjoy this book, common sense and curiosity about the inner workings of business decisions are enough. I learned a lot from this book.

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Risks and supply chains… stochastically speaking2

Posted on 2009-12-08 by

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

Posted on 2009-12-07 by

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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The @risk Blog

Posted on 2009-12-05 by

It is always nice to find blogs on supply chain risk written by a professional with extensive knowledge of the field he is covering. Kevin Cornish’s @risk blog is such a blog. Judging by the list of tags in his sidebar there is very little that escapes his watchful eye, with topics touching upon anything ranging from employee absentism, food safety, to the more obvious: risk mitigation and supplier risk.

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Risk & Vulnerability

Posted on 2009-12-04 by

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

Posted on 2009-12-03 by

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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MITIP 2010 – Call for Papers

Posted on 2009-12-02 by

The MITIP conferences have proven to be an important forum for researchers from academia and industry to present the results of their work, and to inspire a creative dialogue between the industry and the academic world.

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Perspectives on risk management in supply chains

Posted on 2009-12-01 by

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

Posted on 2009-11-27 by

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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INSTR 2010 – Call for papers

Posted on 2009-11-26 by

The aim of INSTR is to bring together researchers and professionals interested in transportation network reliability, to discuss both recent research and future directions in this increasingly important field of research.

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Remote Logistics

Posted on 2009-11-25 by

The delivery of supply chain support for a project in a remote location has a number of challenges which need to be considered already at the planning stage. If these challenges are adressed, the projects stands a much higher chance of succeeding.The other day I came across a post that highlighted the importance of planning ahead and preparing for the worst when undertaking a development project in remote areas.

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Emergency Logistics

Posted on 2009-11-24 by

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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Risk Management in Global Supply Chain Networks

Posted on 2009-11-23 by

Supply Chain Risks can be classified as either one of these three, Deviation, Disruption or Disaster, and can be approached using either a Preventive or an Interceptive approach; the former attempts to build in risk tolerance, the latter attempts to contain the damage or impact of an undesired event.

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Book Review:Managing Risks in Supply Chains

Posted on 2009-11-21 by

The book is a collection of excellent articles by various researchers in supply chain risk from mostly Germany and Austria. To make up for yesterday’s perhaps overly harsh critique of just one article from this book, this is a full and proper content review.

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