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SCM: Past, Present and Future

What has been written during a decade of academic research in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) field? A lot, obviously, but despite the considerable number of academic contributions, the literature is still very fragmented, and only examines one link of the chain, not the entire network.

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Supply Risk Management: just common sense?

There are four situational factors that are important in supply chains, namely, the buyer, the supplier, the product bought, and the environment surrounding the purchase.

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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 [...]
Estimation of disruption risk
How to estimate the disruption risk exposure in a supply chain? That is the question asked by Ulf Pa[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Research Methodologies in SCM
Is there something like the right research design for supply chain studies? I believe there is, and [...]
Book Review: Supply Chain Risk Management
This excellent book by Donald Waters, Supply Chain Risk Management: Vulnerability and Resilience in [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
London Olympics and Business Continuity
Are UK businesses, and in particular London businesses, unprepared for the London Olympics in 2012? [...]
When disaster strikes...
...how does the transportation network recover? And why are transportation networks so essential to [...]
from HERE and THERE
Why we need to think the unthinkable
Immediately after September 11, 2001, "critical infrastructure" and "vulnerability" seemed to be the[...]
Location, location, location
Albeit many supply chains make use of more than one, if not all modes of transport, the vulnerabilit[...]