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Risky decisions – just do it, or not?

Choosing the right supplier is a risky decision. Chose the wrong supplier, and you may face a severe disruption in your supply chain. Chose the right supplier, and all goes well. Hopefully. But is it possible to judge risk objectively?

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Contingent flexibility
Can contingency planning increase flexibility and minimize risk exposure to supply chain disruptions[...]
Drivers of supply chain vulnerability
In 2005, the topic of supply chain vulnerability was still a relatively unexplored territory, though[...]
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: Handbook of Transportation Engineering
Comprehensive and all-encompassing, the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz (editor)[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Transport infrastructure resilience
Is it possible to devise a simple framework for assessing the resilience of the transport infrastruc[...]
The supply chain of the future
Many global supply chains are not equipped to cope with the world we are entering. Most were enginee[...]
from HERE and THERE
Sweet Seduction
Kinaxis Suitemates Episode 4
Time for my weekly reminder: "Suitemates", the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis. Canada-based [...]
2010 - the year of catastrophe
It's Sunday and time for some weekend reflections, aka browsing the Internet for blogs and websites [...]