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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
Building the resilient supply chain
Following up last weeks post on a 2003 UK report on supply chain resilience, here is another "spin-o[...]
Organisational Resilience
Organisational Resilience Literature. "What to read, and what not to read". That could be the popula[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Single Point of Failure
Just out a few days ago, Single Point of Failure is a fascinating read. The author, Gary S. Lynch, i[...]
Book Review: How Nature Works
How Nature works is a fascinating book. I first heard of the late Per Bak and his sandpile theories [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2009 - Countries at risk?
How will the current financial downturn affect supply chains? That's what we all wonder about, isn't[...]
Global Risks 2008 - A prediction come true
In my post on Hyper-optimization and supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk? I highlig[...]
from HERE and THERE
What are you afraid of?
What do businesses in Scandinavia fear the most? That is what Nordic insurance giant If Insurance de[...]
Supply Chain Performance Metrics
Financial key performance indicators are valuable because they capture the economic consequences of [...]