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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
Community resilience in times of disaster
Can public-private partnerships improve community resilience? This question is posed in Leveraging p[...]
Managing Disruption Risks in the Supply Chain - the DRISC model
It is not often that I find a PhD dissertation that is excellently written and a joy to read, keepin[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review - Fraud Risk
Last year I was approached by Gower Publishing and invited to review their Short Guides to Business [...]
Business Continuity in Global Supply Chains
Business Continuity is a crucial ingredient of supply chain management. At the same time, implementi[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
28 Global Risks in 2015
The  World Economic Forum Global Risks Reports. I first came across them in 2008, when the hyperopti[...]
Future Value Chain Trends 2020
The twelve future trends that will shape value chains and supply chain management during this decade[...]
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[...]
Norwegian roads are slooooow...
In a previous post, a while I ago, I stated that Nowegian roads are dangerous...well, not only that,[...]