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Contingent flexibility

Can contingency planning increase flexibility and minimize risk exposure to supply chain disruptions?

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
The impact of supply chain disasters
Disasters. The result: Damaged infrastructure. End result: Disrupted supply chains. But how do disas[...]
Economies of integration
Logistics is no longer what it used to be and logistics today plays a much more important and strate[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: Networks and Algorithms
If you are into network analysis of any kind, this book teaches you the basics. As the name implies,[...]
Book review: Supply Chain Risk Management
Edited by Robert B. Handfield, the book Supply Chain Risk Management: Minimizing Disruptions in Glob[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Zycus and the Supply Risk Explosion
"Ten or fifteen years ago, you could not convince most procurement and supply-chain professionals to[...]
The Benefits of Investing in Supply Chain Security
With the memory of attacks by Somali pirates still fresh in mind, supply chain security has come to [...]
from HERE and THERE
Lean logistics = risky logistics?
A posting on Evolving Excellence called Long is not Lean caught my attention the other day. The auth[...]
Retail Operations in China
In a previous post on the Retail SCM Summit 2011 I mentioned that China as a rising economic powerho[...]