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A supply chain is never stronger than the weakest link

The article is geared towards company CEOs, advising them not to get too detached from supply management, but rather to actively engage in their company’s supply chain management, particularly in businesses like manufacturing, retail and distribution.

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How the wrong people can ruin a supply chain

People are what makes organizations work, or in some cases, not work. What happens if you don’t have the right people? Well, you may have disaster waiting to happen from within.

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Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks

I must admit that I knew very little, if anything, about Virtual Enterprise Networks when I started this adventure some months back, but I can now say that I am fascinated by the concept

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Understanding risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks

I am currently writing a book chapter for the book Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles, which is about risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks (VENs).

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Avoid Supply Chain Breakdown - Tailored Risk Management
In my previous post on Ericsson versus Nokia - the now classic case of supply chain disruption I men[...]
Transportation Resilience
There hasn't been a proper literature review on my blog for a while, but this post will put it right[...]
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: Reputation Risk
Reputation. Not only is it practically impossible to measure, its value is also frequently underesti[...]
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[...]
Stemming the rising tide
Are you are taking radically different actions than your peers when it comes to supply chain risk ma[...]
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[...]
Retail SCM Summit 2011
China. Perhaps the biggest arena for future development in logistics and supply chain management? It[...]