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From the back room to the board room

Supply chain management used to be relegated to the logistics department of businesses and hardly thought of as matters concerning the top-level management. In his 2004 paper, Joseph L. Cavinato points out five sub-networs within the supply chain that need special attention:Physical – the actual movement of goods, shipping and warehousing
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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply chain management - the new research cocktail?
Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way that is focused on theory buil[...]
A typology of crises
What defines a crisis? Are there different types of crises? Crisis management is the focus of this w[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Appetite versus Attitude
Finally, and long overdue, another review in the Gower Short Guide to Business Risk book series. Thi[...]
Transportation Hazards
This is an updated and extended review of  the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz ([...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Risky cities - want to work there?
If you are doing global business, do you know where you are at risk and what risk that is most perti[...]
Vulnerable or valuable supply chain?
More than a year old now, but still holding not so few words of wisdom is the Pricewaterhouse Cooper[...]
from HERE and THERE
The IRM Risk Management Standard
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) is risk management's leading international professional educa[...]
Supply Chain Visibility through Web Conferencing
It's weekend and time for some reflections. Maybe slightly off-topic for this blog, but the other da[...]