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SCRM Research Gaps

Supply Chain Risk Management is a area that has seen a significant growth in recent years. However, there is diverse perception of research in supply chain risk because these researchers have approached this area from different domains, thus creating three distinct research gaps.

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Avoid Supply Chain Breakdown – Tailored Risk Management

In Chopra and Sodhi (2004) ‘Managing Risk to Avoid Supply-Chain Breakdown’ the first key message is that some mitigation strategies may actually increase risk in some business areas, rather than reduce it.The second key message is that the cost of mitigating or building up a reserve must be balanced against the level of risk.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Humanitarian aid is better when decentralized
Humanitarian operations rely heavily on logistics in uncertain, risky, and urgent contexts, making t[...]
Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability in Indonesia
Indonesia. 17000 islands spread over a distance of 6000 kilometres. Mega-cities and remote desolate [...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Creative Destruction
Like with so many of my other recent book reviews I came across Nolan and Croson's book, Creative De[...]
Book Review: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
This book, The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measur[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
ISO 28002 – Supply Chain Resilience
Have you heard of ISO 28002?  No? You should take note of this standard, because the ISO 28000 serie[...]
from HERE and THERE
Building the resilient supply chain
Supply chain risk seems to be on everyone's agenda these days, with one event after the other compet[...]
Is Your Supply Chain Vulnerable?
Recently I came across a report on Supply Chain Vulnerability published as early as 2002 by the Cran[...]