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Toy stories: lessons to be learned

How the toy industry handles supply chain risk is applicable to many other industries as well. While few of the risks faced by toy makers are unique to the industry, the combination of risks is daunting.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Mitigating supply chain disruptions
How could I have missed this paper? I was preparing my 2009-lecture on supply chain risk for tomorro[...]
Toy stories: lessons to be learned
Christmas. Toys. Two things that belong together. But it isn't always a happy story. Not only do sea[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Research Methodologies in SCM
Is there something like the right research design for supply chain studies? I believe there is, and [...]
Book review: Handbook of Transportation Engineering
Comprehensive and all-encompassing, the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz (editor)[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
Supply chains have gone global. No longer are they a point-to-chain of goods flowing from a source t[...]
Supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk?
Supply chain disruption - a global issue? All companies and governments dependent on external suppli[...]
from HERE and THERE
Business Intelligence – a key element in Supply Chain Risk Management
In my postings on supply chain risk and supply chain disruption, there is one thing that I have ov[...]
7 out of 10 businesses without a continuity plan
An article today in the paper issue of Dagens Næringsliv, the Norwegian equivalent of the Financial [...]