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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
Risky decisions - just do it, or not?
Choosing the right supplier is a risky decision. Chose the wrong supplier, and you may face a severe[...]
Graph Theory to the rescue
Graph Theory. In Supply Chain Management? It's probably 10 years ago since last time I looked at Gra[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Supply Chain Risk - Jetzt auch auf Deutsch
Unbeknown to me - or perhaps I really should have known better - there appears to be a large body of[...]
ISCRiM 2010 Proceedings
Two weeks ago I attended the ISCRiM 2010 seminar at Loughborough University, a gathering of some of [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Assess the vulnerability of your production system
So far I have reviewed "international" literature and web sites, and it is only fitting that now it [...]
Calculating the Value-at-Risk
Some of you may remember that I posted about the SCOR Framework for Supply Chain Risk Management ear[...]
from HERE and THERE
INSTR 2010 - Call for papers
I can't believe I haven't mentioned this conference on my blog before., because the call has been ou[...]
BBC World Debate: Disasters - Prepare or React?
Should we actually bother to spend time and money on disaster mitigation, or should we rather focus [...]