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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
Black Swan Events
Black Swan events - should we even bother? The October issue of the Harvard Business Review had a sp[...]
Mitigating supply chain disruptions
How could I have missed this paper? I was preparing my 2009-lecture on supply chain risk for tomorro[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Political Risk
Egypt is in crisis. After Tunisia, now Egypt is rocked by a popular uprising, and the outcome of the[...]
Book review: Handbook of Transportation Engineering
Comprehensive and all-encompassing, the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz (editor)[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Assess the vulnerability of your production system
So far I have reviewed "international" literature and web sites, and it is only fitting that now it [...]
Engineering transportation lifelines
New Zealand is probably not the fist country that comes to mind when thinking of state-of-the-art tr[...]
from HERE and THERE
Suites - what suites?
I have been swamped with work this week. In fact, so swamped that I forgot to watch episode two of "[...]
How Effective Pallet Management Can Benefit the Full Supply Chain
pps pallet pooling
One seemingly small link in the supply chain of goods is pallets; those little timber crates on whic[...]