Tag Archives: Köhler Holger

Low Cost Country Sourcing

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Revised on: 2015-09-12

Low-cost countries. A dream for some and a nightmare for other others. What are typical supply chain risks in low-cost countries and how can they be managed? That is the topic of the PhD dissertation by Holger Köhler, now available as a book: Supply Chain Risiken im Low Cost Country Sourcing: Reduktion von Lieferrisiken in China und der Türkei. In the book, which is a more or less unabridged version of his dissertation, Holger Köhler not only presents a (new) system for the systematization of supply chain risks, he also develops a model for the factors that influence supplier risk and he exemplifies the cause and effect of supplier risks in China and in Turkey.

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Supply Chain Logistics Risk in Germany

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Revised on: 2015-09-12

What are the most common supply chain and logistics risks that businesses and logistics providers have to deal with? Here is a study that provides the most complete answer to that question that I have seen to date. Risikomanagement in der Supply Chain – Status Quo und Herausforderungen aus Industrie-, Handels- und Dienstleisterperspektive by Hans-Christian Pfohl, Philipp Gallus and Holger Köhler is a meticulous study from Germany that speaks for itself in describing which risks that have which probability and which impact among businesses and among logistics providers. Note that I use supply chain and logistics risks. That is because this study separates business risks from logistics providers risk, and that is a novel approach I haven’t seen too often.

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State of the art in SCRM?

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Revised on: 2015-09-12

A severe supply chain disruption has hit my own blog: More than a month without a post. It’s not that there is so little to write about, it’s just that there is so little time to do it, which is why I’ve decided to reurn to a once weekly posing schedule. Nonetheless, what better occasion could there be to resume my posting than the discovery of an article proclaiming to provide a review of the state of the art in supply chain risk management? The literature review and conceptual framework developed by Hans-Christian Pfohl, Holger Köhler and David Thomas clearly identifies the main principles of SCRM and develops a framework and definitions for disturbance, disruption, security, resilience and risk. Supply chain risk management, so they say, is a process with evolutionary steps, involving no less than 17 underlying principles. Phew…

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