Why such a title for today’s post? The abstract of the 2004 article Risky business: Expanding the discussion on risk and the extended enterprise by Robert E Spekman and Edward W Davis promises to highlight six areas of supply chain risk and discuss these at length, showing how they are endemic to the extended enterprise, and develop a typology for categorizing them. And indeed, a lengthy discussion it is, hence the “rambling“. That said, it is a lengthy discussion not to be missed.

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