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Catastrophic events in supply chains

Finding the right facility location is difficult enough. Keeping it safe is even more difficult. One of the building bricks of the this article is the identification of so-called key supply chain locations.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Importance and Exposure – Measures of Vulnerability?
Today I am presenting a paper from an old friend of mine. Well, "friend" is perhaps a slight exagger[...]
Building the resilient supply chain
Following up last weeks post on a 2003 UK report on supply chain resilience, here is another "spin-o[...]
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[...]
Book Review: How Nature Works
How Nature works is a fascinating book. I first heard of the late Per Bak and his sandpile theories [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Stemming the rising tide
Are you are taking radically different actions than your peers when it comes to supply chain risk ma[...]
A Decade of Living Dangerously
Do you remember the movie The Year of Living Dangerously with Mel Gibson? Topically unrelated maybe,[...]
from HERE and THERE
Pay more get more?
How quickly time flies when you're having fun. And fun it is, watching "Suitemates", the big new mar[...]
The Swedish Road Network - Vulnerable or not?
The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden KTH is in the finishing stages of a research [...]