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When your supplier goes bust…

Supply chain risk management must look beyond the individual supplier and look at dependencies within the entire supplier portfolio. Such dependencies may not be obvious at first sight, and this paper presents one very good approach towards discovering these dependencies.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply chain risk management - a literature review
Is it possible to summarize  seven years of supply chain risk management research and find a common [...]
Supply Chain Risk redefined?
What is supply chain risk really? That is what Iris Heckmann, Tina Comes and Stefan Nickel try to an[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Your Research Project
This book is a must-have for any serious student or budding research. Even if you consider yourself [...]
Book Review: HBR on Crisis Management
Close calls and near misses are not unusual in the business world, but how do companies deal with th[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The Benefits of Investing in Supply Chain Security
With the memory of attacks by Somali pirates still fresh in mind, supply chain security has come to [...]
28 Global Risks in 2015
The  World Economic Forum Global Risks Reports. I first came across them in 2008, when the hyperopti[...]
from HERE and THERE
Business continuity 101
This is the 3rd day with severe transportation and thus supply chain disruptions all over Europe, du[...]
How to count money spent on road investments
Following up yesterday's post on why one of the world’s richest countries has one of the world’s wor[...]