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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
A conceptual model of Supply Chain Flexibility
What do you do when you find two research papers by the same three authors, published the same year,[...]
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: HBR on Supply Chain Management
Today we continue my exploration of the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series that I started yes[...]
Supply Chain Continuity
Many business owners will have come across the term business continuity, and many supply chain owner[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The supply chain of the future
Many global supply chains are not equipped to cope with the world we are entering. Most were enginee[...]
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
from HERE and THERE
The Box is back!
Finally, the BBC Box has returned home, as I was made aware of from a post on @risk the other day. I[...]
Three steps to make your supply chain less vulnerable
Some time ago, Jeff Karrenbauer, CEO of Insight Inc., a top international provider of supply chain p[...]