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Supply Chain Confidence

Traditionally, papers on supply chain risk use the “classic” supply-demand-internal-external scheme for classifying supply supply chain risk sources. Christopher and Lee do not. They see risk as primarily related to uncertainty, volatility and turbulence

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Sustainable supply chains
Sustainability has become a huge buzzword, both in today's business world and within the broader fac[...]
Supplier selection based on supplier risk
It's amazing how supply chain risk papers appear in the unlikeliest of places, and today I discovere[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Ethical Risk
This is - for the time being - the sixth and final review of the books in the Gower Short Guides to [...]
Book Review: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
This book, The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measur[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Managing supply chain risk
In September and October 2009 the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 500 company executives with r[...]
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
In our interconnected world, safety, reliability and efficiency can only be secured through collabor[...]
from HERE and THERE
Can Somali pirates bring down supply chains?
The BBC news this morning ran an interesting and worrying story: Shipping companies are considering [...]
CSCMP Europe 2009 Conference
The phrase "Supply chains compete, not companies" was coined by Martin Christopher, and it is a fitt[...]