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Building a secure and resilient supply chain

Are you gambling with your supply network? You should be aware that the supply network is inherently vulnerable to disruption and the failure of any one element in it could cause the whole network to fail. Actions to improve security can be classified into three categories: Physical security, Information security, Freight security. Actions to improve resilience can be be divided into: Flexibility, Redundancy.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Resilience revisited
How many ways are there for defining vulnerability and criticality, really? Traditionally, risk matr[...]
Transportation Lifelines and Critical Infrastructure
This is the first paper that sparked my research interest in transportation vulnerability, and what [...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: The Network Reliability of Transport
I guess you would have to have attended the conference yourself or be a researcher in this very fiel[...]
Book Review: Operations Rules
Operations Rules by David Simchi-Levi comes with an ambiguous title. You can read this two ways: 1) [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
Supply chains have gone global. No longer are they a point-to-chain of goods flowing from a source t[...]
Supply Chain Security
Today's supply chains circle the globe and form the backbone of world trade and a are major factor i[...]
from HERE and THERE
Sparse transportation networks - a nightmare
E6 Steinkjer Løsberga
Now it has happened again. Hardly a week goes by in Norway without a major supply chain disruption. [...]
Retail Operations in China
In a previous post on the Retail SCM Summit 2011 I mentioned that China as a rising economic powerho[...]