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Supply Chain Flexibility in Strategic Networks

What fascinates me with this paper are (1) the parameters defining supply chain flexibility: Transparency, Simplicity, Responsiveness/Agility and Security/Reliability, and (2) flexibility potentials: Structural, Technological and Human flexibility potentials.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Humanitarian aid is better when decentralized
Humanitarian operations rely heavily on logistics in uncertain, risky, and urgent contexts, making t[...]
Call for papers: Global Supply Chain Risk Management
Are you currently planning to write or actually writing a paper on supply chain risk and wondering w[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
What are Logistics Clusters?
This is a guest post by Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logist[...]
Book Review: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
This book, The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measur[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Infrastructure - essential for competitiveness?
Regular readers of this blog may have noticed my regular rants about the state of the Norwegian infr[...]
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[...]
from HERE and THERE
Near-shoring - less risk?
You Can’t Understand China’s Slowdown Without Understanding Supply Chains. That's the title of a rec[...]
Christchurch earthquake and transportation
Christchurch, New Zealand, has been hit by an earthquake. Having spent some time living there myself[...]