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Is Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment the way of the future?

The key issue is to not make your supply chain one type only, but to keep it open-ended, such that the appropriate supply chain constellation can be matched to the according customer or supplier or product.

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Supply chain flexibility – a complete literature review?

Someone had to come up with this, it was just a matter of time, and it is no suprise that this article comes from India, one of the major providers of global outsourcing for many industries.

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Lean + Agile = LeAgile: a happy marriage?

Opposites attract and in the supply chain world, “lean” and “agile” appear to be opposites. Both management strategies have their advantages and disadvantages.

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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
Resilience revisited
How many ways are there for defining vulnerability and criticality, really? Traditionally, risk matr[...]
Transport Network Disruption
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Operations Rules
Operations Rules by David Simchi-Levi comes with an ambiguous title. You can read this two ways: 1) [...]
Can your business take a blow?
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Engineering transportation lifelines
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Infrastructure - essential for competitiveness?
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from HERE and THERE
Is Your Supply Chain Vulnerable?
Recently I came across a report on Supply Chain Vulnerability published as early as 2002 by the Cran[...]
Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience
Economic resilience, as defined a paper published by the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Eng[...]