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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
Visualizing the risk of global sourcing
The benefits of global sourcing as part of a firm’s purchasing strategy have been widely discussed i[...]
Logistics risks - the new science?
Can logistics become an academic discipline? And can logistics risk be my new academic discipline? A[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Single Point of Failure
Just out a few days ago, Single Point of Failure is a fascinating read. The author, Gary S. Lynch, i[...]
Supply Chain Continuity
Many business owners will have come across the term business continuity, and many supply chain owner[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk?
Supply chain disruption - a global issue? All companies and governments dependent on external suppli[...]
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
from HERE and THERE
The 2009 Nordic Business Continuity Symposium
I guess this will be THE gathering of who's who in the Nordic Business Continuity commuity, and I wi[...]
ArcView Network Analyst Tutorial
The ArcView Network Analyst (AVNA is extension module for ArcView GIS. This tutorial was developed b[...]