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Crisis? What crisis?

An “ordinary” contingency is not a crisis. An extraordinary contingency is a potential crisis. It is only when the ordinary contingency plans fail or when the ordinary contingency measures are not enough that we have potential crisis at our hands.

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Contingent flexibility

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

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Catastrophic events in supply chains

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.

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Corporate vulnerability

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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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Shrink Shrank Shrunk
A missed classic? Perhaps, because after reading this article I realized that this in many ways is a[...]
Flexing your SCM muscles
A supply chain is never stronger than its weakest link, and that (having a weak link) is perhaps the[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: Supply Chain Risk Management
Edited by Robert B. Handfield, the book Supply Chain Risk Management: Minimizing Disruptions in Glob[...]
Book Review: Virtual Teams
This is another post resulting from my literature review when researching background material for my[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Critical Infrastructure and Resilience
What happens when a business is disabled for a length of time? What are the impacts on its profitabi[...]
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
from HERE and THERE
Supply Chain Performance Metrics
Financial key performance indicators are valuable because they capture the economic consequences of [...]
Can we do without air traffic?
Travelers and businesses are waking up to a fourth day of no air traffic in Europe, and a fourth day[...]