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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
State of the art in SCRM?
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Call for papers: Humanitarian Logistics
With resilience as one the main themes for this blog, from time to time I have written posts on disa[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Supply Chain Nirvana
Is there something like a Supply Chain Nirvana, where it all comes together and where a firm's suppl[...]
Supply Chain Risk - Jetzt auch auf Deutsch
Unbeknown to me - or perhaps I really should have known better - there appears to be a large body of[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
Global Risks 2008 - A prediction come true
In my post on Hyper-optimization and supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk? I highlig[...]
from HERE and THERE
The ISCRiM Newsletter 2/2009
I don't know what I would do with the ISCRiM Newsletters from the International Supply Chain Risk Ma[...]
Supply Chain Risk Management Survey
Effective Supply Chain Risk Management has become one of the key ways of securing competitive advant[...]