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Mitigating Supply Chain Vulnerability

Here is a risk assessment index that can be used to measure the vulnerability of different supply chain structures. While it is apparently straightforward to calculate this risk index, it is subject to a number of assumptions that are not equally straightforward to quantify.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Transportation Resilience
There hasn't been a proper literature review on my blog for a while, but this post will put it right[...]
Mitigating supply chain disruptions
How could I have missed this paper? I was preparing my 2009-lecture on supply chain risk for tomorro[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
What are Logistics Clusters?
This is a guest post by Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logist[...]
Risk Management in Maritime Transportation Networks
This week’s focus are risks in the maritime supply chain, and today's article introduces a new metho[...]
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[...]
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
from HERE and THERE
Operational Excellence - or not
Operational Excellence or OpEx for short, what does that imply and why should you care about it? Wel[...]
If the UK goes cold, blame me
Still thinking about my recent post on the importance of security of supply, I first added salt and [...]