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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
Transportation - the forgotten staple
What a difference a title makes. I only found this article because it was referenced in another arti[...]
Finding the right location - minimizing disruption costs
Classical facility location models assume that once optimally located and set up, facilities will op[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Risk and resilience in maritime logistics
This week's focus are risks in the maritime supply chain and today's paper sets out a framework for [...]
Book Review: Supply Chain Risk Management
This excellent book by Donald Waters, Supply Chain Risk Management: Vulnerability and Resilience in [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
We are living in a new world of risk that is making this world unprecedentedly complex and challengi[...]
28 Global Risks in 2015
The  World Economic Forum Global Risks Reports. I first came across them in 2008, when the hyperopti[...]
from HERE and THERE
Research Blogging - for the investigative mind?
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you will notice that many posts reviewing  the literature n[...]
A lesson in supply chain disruption: German railways during WWII
Now this may seem totally off topic, but I have become so engrossed with modern-day supply chains th[...]