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The Nordic approach to Logistics and Supply Chain Management?

Is there such a thing as a typically Nordic way of thinking within the field of Supply Chain Management? A new book is out, trying to answer that question: Northern Lights in Logistics & Supply Chain Management

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Why risk is the buzzword in supply chain management

What is supply chain risk? Today I will take a closer look at the chapter titled “Managing risk in the supply chain” in Logistics & Supply Chain Management by Christopher Martin.

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Book Review: Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Responsiveness, reliability and relationships are the basis for successful logistics and supply chain management. Strategies like Just-In-Time (JIT), Lean and Agile thinking are reviewed, and last not least, there is a chapter on supply chain risk.

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Book Review: Supply Chain Risk Management

This excellent book by Donald Waters offers a comprehensive overview of many important issues in managing supply chain risk. More than 15 case studies and a straightforward hands-on practical approach make this book an enjoyable read. I almost forgot that I bought this book as a text book.

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Book Review: Logistics Management and Strategy

I have found it hard to find a book that explains the concepts of logistics and supply chain management in a clearer fashion than this book. Every chapter features a number of case studies in which the theory is discussed in-depth.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply Chain Risk Management in six steps
Supply management is not just about acquiring goods and services at the best possible price. It's al[...]
Vulnerability and resilience of transport systems
I've been away from academia for the last three years, and in my efforts to catch up with the latest[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Organizing Resilience
Resilience. A word that his been in the media perhaps more than ever before these days. I am of cour[...]
What are Logistics Clusters?
This is a guest post by Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logist[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Vulnerable or valuable supply chain?
More than a year old now, but still holding not so few words of wisdom is the Pricewaterhouse Cooper[...]
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
from HERE and THERE
Less cost and less disruptions?
One of the regular readers of my blog alerted me to an article in the NY Times titled Slow Trip Acro[...]
How to get a PhD without a dissertation
This is a true story about how I was credited with a PhD without having one, just because someone mi[...]