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Broader research = better research?

I like mixing ideas, and my approach to logistics, or supply chain management is no exception.

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Transportation reliability and vulnerability

This is a philosophical essay on transportation vulnerability, where three fields or subjects are brought together : engineering (reliability and vulnerability), economics (cost and benefits) and politics (decision making).The research essay aims at taking reliability and vulnerability into the realm of cost-benefit analysis to serve as decision support.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply Chain Flexibility in Strategic Networks
A supply chain as a virtual enterprise network. That is the underlying reasoning in the 2009 paper H[...]
Measuring supply chain risk management
This paper was suggested by one of my readers, and upon reading it I must admit that it IS one of th[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Enterprise SCM
Have you ever played SimCity? I never liked Transport Tycoon that much, but I used to play SimCity a[...]
Book Review: Supply Chain Risk
A comment on a a previous book review - Supply Chain Risk Managament by Donald Waters - prompted me [...]
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[...]
Future Value Chain Trends 2020
The twelve future trends that will shape value chains and supply chain management during this decade[...]
from HERE and THERE
Can Somali pirates bring down supply chains?
The BBC news this morning ran an interesting and worrying story: Shipping companies are considering [...]
ERP consultants: A nightmare
Kinaxis Suitemates
I'm an academic ... a transport economist who happened to stumble into supply chain management. Actu[...]