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The supply chain of the future

Companies should design their portfolios of manufacturing and supplier networks to minimize the total landed-cost risk under different scenarios. The goal should be identifying a resilient manufacturing and sourcing footprint—even when it’s not necessarily the lowest cost one today.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
An empirical investigation into supply chain vulnerability
Today's journal article is from Germany. In An empirical investigation into supply chain vulnerabili[...]
Supply chain vulnerability: Mitigation strategies
A new outlet for articles on supply chain vulnerability? Perhaps. And actually, it's not that new, s[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain
This book is a gem. To me. Where Helen Peck in her article Reconciling supply chain vulnerability, r[...]
Book Review: Managing Risk and Security
One of my readers suggested this book to me via  a comment on my supply chain literature list pages[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk?
Supply chain disruption - a global issue? All companies and governments dependent on external suppli[...]
Global Resilience Index
The 2015 FM Global Resilience Index provides an annual ranking of 130 countries and territories acco[...]
from HERE and THERE
CSCMP Europe 2009 Conference
The phrase "Supply chains compete, not companies" was coined by Martin Christopher, and it is a fitt[...]
Supply Chain Performance Metrics
Financial key performance indicators are valuable because they capture the economic consequences of [...]