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Book Review: Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability

Another book by someone from the ISCRIM gang? No, not this time, or perhaps, yes, after all, since several of the ISCRIM members have contributed to it. The book serves a twofold purpose: 1) Understanding and assessing risk in the supply chain, and 2) Decision making and risk mitigation in the supply chain.

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How to Design Mitigation Capabilities

The severity of supply chain disruptions stems from supply chain design characteristics and supply chain mitigation capabilities: Supply Chain Design: supply chain density,supply chain complexity, node criticality. Supply Chain Mitigation Capability: recovery capability, warning capability.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Certain death: Not risky. Uncertain death: risky.
If you know for sure that things will go wrong, there really is no risk. If you don't know for sure [...]
Interpreting Resiliency
In yesterday's post on Freight Transportations Systems Resilience I mentioned Kelly Pitera and her M[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Published. Not perished.
Publish or perish? Publish. It has taken its time, but finally it is there, the book that has my cha[...]
Enterprise-wide Risk Management
Coming from a crisis management and business continuity background, I really enjoyed reading Enterpr[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
We are living in a new world of risk that is making this world unprecedentedly complex and challengi[...]
London Olympics and Business Continuity
Are UK businesses, and in particular London businesses, unprepared for the London Olympics in 2012? [...]
from HERE and THERE
ERP consultants: A nightmare
Kinaxis Suitemates
I'm an academic ... a transport economist who happened to stumble into supply chain management. Actu[...]
CSCMP Europe 2009 Conference
The phrase "Supply chains compete, not companies" was coined by Martin Christopher, and it is a fitt[...]