Tag Archives: Peck Helen

Building the resilient supply chain

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Revised on: 2015-09-08

Following up last weeks post on a 2003 UK report on supply chain resilience, here is another “spin-off ” from the supply chain research done at Cranfield University: Building the resilient supply chain, written by Martin Christopher and Helen Peck in 2004. Since its inception this article has formed the bedrock for practically every literature review on supply chain resilience. Frankly, if you are investigating how to make supply chains more resilient, and if you forget to mention this article in your literature review, then I would say that obviously, you have absolutely no clue about supply chains or resilience.

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Risk Management: Contingent versus Mitigative

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Revised on: 2015-09-08

The risk management literature separates between mitigative actions or strategies and contingent actions or strategies. It is important to keep these two perspectives apart. Why? Because risk management needs to address both sides of the risk: what lies behind the risk (source) and what lies in front of it (consequences). Here is my attempt at defining these two terms and explaining the differences, at least the way I see it, based on Asbjørnslett (2008), Tomlin (2006) and Jüttner et al. (2003).

 

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Lean + Agile = LeAgile: a happy marriage?

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Revised on: 2015-09-11

Opposites attract and in the supply chain world, “lean” and “agile” appear to be opposites. Both management strategies have their advantages and disadvantages, and the question is, is it possible for them to exist side by side, or even fuse?  In their 2006 article A taxonomy for selecting global supply chain strategies, Christopher, Peck and Towill describe a fusion of Lean and Agile, termed LeAgile.

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Supply Chain Risk Management – as seen from Space

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Revised on: 2015-09-29

Is it possible to reconcile supply chain vulnerability, risk and supply chain management with corporate governance, business continuity, national security and emergency planning? In a 2006 article, Reconciling supply chain vulnerability, risk and supply chain management, by Helen Peck, she attempts to do just that, hence my analogy of looking down at supply chains from Space – in order to really see the big picture. Because, as far as supply chain risk goes, some, if not all, stakeholders are found far beyond the individual supply chain and Helen Peck does an excellent  job at explaining why.

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A Future Research Agenda for Supply Chain Risk

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Revised on: 2015-09-08

When Manuj and Mentzer (2008) wrote their article titled Global Supply Chain Risk Management, they used Ghoshal (1987) Global Strategy: An Organizing Framework for developing sources of risk and Jüttner, Peck and Christopher (2003) Supply Chain Risk Management: Outlining an Agenda for Future Research for developing risk mitigation strategies. However, THAT is not why I am taking a closer look at the latter today. What brought said paper to my attention were the two simple figures it used. Why are the figures so striking?

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Drivers of supply chain vulnerability

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Revised on: 2015-09-10

In 2005, the topic of supply chain vulnerability was still a relatively unexplored territory, though it was already in its ascendancy to becoming one of the major areas of management research. In her article Drivers of supply chain vulnerability: an integrated framework, Helen Peck identifies four drivers of supply chain vulnerability, based on an exploratory and empirically grounded case study of commercial supply chains.

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Is Your Supply Chain Vulnerable?

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Revised on: 2011-03-10

Recently I came across a report on Supply Chain Vulnerability published as early as 2002 by the Cranfield University School of Management on behalf of the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Home Office. The key findings from this research report into supply chain vulnerabilities are quite interesting.

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