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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
Shrink Shrank Shrunk
A missed classic? Perhaps, because after reading this article I realized that this in many ways is a[...]
Friend or foe or both?
Realities of supply chain collaboration
Supply chain collaboration, easy or difficult? And can it really work? In theory yes, but in reality[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Risk Management Simplified
Risk management. Why make it difficult when you can make it easy? That is perhaps what Andy Osborne [...]
Transportation Hazards
This is an updated and extended review of  the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz ([...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Transport infrastructure resilience
Is it possible to devise a simple framework for assessing the resilience of the transport infrastruc[...]
Supply chain disruption risk on the rise
Global supply chains are increasingly becoming more vulnerable to potential disruption to trade, say[...]
from HERE and THERE
Norwegian roads are slooooow...
In a previous post, a while I ago, I stated that Nowegian roads are dangerous...well, not only that,[...]
ERDAS tutorial
About the tutorial This tutorial is taken from my coursework for the MSc in GIS at the University o[...]