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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
Corporate Social Responsibility
How far does corporate social responsibility go? While corporate social responsibility looks good on[...]
Risk in supply networks - a tale of principals and agents
Sometimes the most interesting articles are found outside the mainstream journals of ones field, and[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
SC Design and Management
More than 500-page heavy and laden with real-life examples and thoroughly calculated details, Design[...]
Book Review: Managing External Risk
I am blessed to have a college library that complies with most of my book acquisition requests and t[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Engineering transportation lifelines
New Zealand is probably not the fist country that comes to mind when thinking of state-of-the-art tr[...]
ISO 28002 – Supply Chain Resilience
Have you heard of ISO 28002?  No? You should take note of this standard, because the ISO 28000 serie[...]
from HERE and THERE
Christchurch earthquake...again!?!
Oh dear...another earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, less than 6 months after the previous dis[...]
Overcoming locational disadvantage
Following up my previous post, Sparse transportation networks - a recipe for supply chain disruption[...]