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Interpreting Resiliency

Kelly Pitera explores and evaluates resiliency efforts currently being used by importing enterprises, focusing on goods movement within the supply chain.

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What is Freight Transportation System Resilience?

In ‘Structuring a definition of Resilience in the Freight Transportation System’, by Chilan Ta, Kelly Pitera and Anne Goodchild, resilience is defined along three dimensions: Physical Infrastructure, Managing Organization, System Users.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Vulnerability in business relationships
Today's journal article review is an article by professor Göran Svensson from Halmstad University in[...]
Occupational hazards in supply chains
Material breakages and damages are not unknown incidents in supply chains, but material damage and o[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Risk Management in Global Supply Chain Networks
Supply Chain Risks can be classified as either one of these three, Deviation, Disruption or Disaster[...]
Book Review - Fraud Risk
Last year I was approached by Gower Publishing and invited to review their Short Guides to Business [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Critical Infrastructure and Resilience
What happens when a business is disabled for a length of time? What are the impacts on its profitabi[...]
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
We are living in a new world of risk that is making this world unprecedentedly complex and challengi[...]
from HERE and THERE
Overcoming locational disadvantage
Following up my previous post, Sparse transportation networks - a recipe for supply chain disruption[...]
A Christmas To Remember
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This has truly been a year of continuous supply chain disruptions, and many businesses have felt th[...]