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Stemming the rising tide

Written in 2008 and well before the global financial downturn had companies think of anything but supply chain risk, this study of 110 North American risk managers by Marsh found that only 35 percent considered their companies to be “moderately effective” at managing supply chain risk.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Theory versus Practice
What happens when theory meets practice? Theory fails and practice wins? In academia, more often tha[...]
Cross-border supply chains
What are the main change and trend drivers for international supply chains? How will future cross-bo[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Resilience times four
Resilience. It is not so much about reducing the number of things that go wrong, but it is about imp[...]
Supply Chain Continuity
Many business owners will have come across the term business continuity, and many supply chain owner[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Resilience Index
The 2015 FM Global Resilience Index provides an annual ranking of 130 countries and territories acco[...]
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
Thanks to Somali pirates no Santa is coming this year?
In a previous article, 2 weeks ago, I voiced my opinion on whether Somali Pirates can shut down Euro[...]
Less cost and less disruptions?
One of the regular readers of my blog alerted me to an article in the NY Times titled Slow Trip Acro[...]