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It’s already happening…in Norway?

On a smarter planet, we can use tracking technology to track and trace our food as it makes its way through the supply chain from the farm to our table. It’s already happening in places like Canada, Norway, and Vietnam.

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The supply chain of the future

Instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. That is IBM’s vision of the supply chain of the future. The report features an interesting table, where these three characteristics are linked to SCM competencies and how they can be implemented.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
The difference between legal and illegal supply chains
For a budding researcher, other people's PhD papers or dissertations can be a true inspiration and g[...]
Estimation of disruption risk
How to estimate the disruption risk exposure in a supply chain? That is the question asked by Ulf Pa[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Supply Chain Risk
A comment on a a previous book review - Supply Chain Risk Managament by Donald Waters - prompted me [...]
Book Review: Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability
Another book by someone from the ISCRiM group? No, not this time, or perhaps, yes, after all. Managi[...]
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[...]
Risk management - Vocabulary
What is risk management in supply chains? The more I study supply chain risk management, the more co[...]
from HERE and THERE
How Effective Pallet Management Can Benefit the Full Supply Chain
pps pallet pooling
One seemingly small link in the supply chain of goods is pallets; those little timber crates on whic[...]
What are you afraid of?
What do businesses in Scandinavia fear the most? That is what Nordic insurance giant If Insurance de[...]