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Lean logistics = risky logistics?

Lean does not necessarily make you more vulnerable or less robust towards supply chain disruptions. Lean implies agile, and agile is what is needed to overcome supply chain disruptions.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Economies of integration
Logistics is no longer what it used to be and logistics today plays a much more important and strate[...]
Acts of God or Acts of Man?
Do we ever learn? How come we humans knowingly and willingly put ourselves and our critical infrastr[...]
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[...]
Book Review: Political Risk
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Will Climate Change have an impact on transportation?
Many studies have already examined the potential impacts of climate change on broad sectors of the e[...]
Managing supply chain risk
In September and October 2009 the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 500 company executives with r[...]
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[...]
Downgrades are upgrades
Time for episode three of "Suitemates", the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis, a Canada-based su[...]