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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.

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Lean + Agile = LeAgile: a happy marriage?

Opposites attract and in the supply chain world, “lean” and “agile” appear to be opposites. Both management strategies have their advantages and disadvantages.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply Chain Risk redefined?
What is supply chain risk really? That is what Iris Heckmann, Tina Comes and Stefan Nickel try to an[...]
Call for papers: Risk Management in Supply Chains
Operational research has become one of the most indispensable tools in business. Modelling and analy[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Low Cost Country Sourcing
Low-cost countries. A dream for some and a nightmare for other others. What are typical supply chain[...]
What are Logistics Clusters?
This is a guest post by Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logist[...]
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[...]
Highway Vulnerability and Criticality Assessment
Transportation vulnerability and resilience have been the focus of this blog for the past two days, [...]
from HERE and THERE
Volcanic ash cloud - really a surprise?
Last week a volcanic eruption on Iceland took Europe's civil aviation authorities by total surprise,[...]
The IRM Risk Management Standard
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) is risk management's leading international professional educa[...]