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Book Review: Humanitarian Logistics

Humanitarian supply chains appear to be the rising star within supply chain management, and rightly so. This book matches humanitarian logistics with corporate social responsibility, and that is not only doing good but doing the good rightly.

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Humanitarian aid is better when decentralized

Decentralization, pre-positioning and pooling of relief items are key success factors for dramatic improvements in humanitarian operations performance in disaster response and recovery.

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Managing risk in global supply chains

The book Strategies for Building Successful Global Businesses, by the INSEAD-Wharton Alliance on Globalizing, contains 6 articles on managing risk and uncertainty. Today I will look at one of these articles that deserves further mentioning.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
German Autos at risk? Perhaps not.
The German automotive industry. Volkswagen, Mercedes, Porsche, Audi, BMW. The embodiment of craftsma[...]
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[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
The Resilient Organization
What does it mean to be a resilient organization? That is the topic of  The Resilient Organization, [...]
Book review: The Network Reliability of Transport
I guess you would have to have attended the conference yourself or be a researcher in this very fiel[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Risk management - Vocabulary
What is risk management in supply chains? The more I study supply chain risk management, the more co[...]
Saving Norway's crumbling infrastructure
NTP 2010-2019
Following up my post this morning called "D-Day for Norway's Transport Infrastructure", the numbers [...]
from HERE and THERE
Cutting back on road spending may not be wise
In an article today, the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet revealed that Statens Vegvesen (or the Norweg[...]
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[...]