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Risk & Vulnerability

Supply chains are increasingly becoming complex webs and networks and are no longer straightforward chains with just a few links between supplier and customer.

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Assess the vulnerability of your production system

The paper defines the concept of vulnerability as it applies to production systems and is built around three concepts: A taxonomy of vulnerability factors as a basis for or guideline in establishing scenarios.
An input/output model to describe production systems.
A two-step vulnerability analysis for productions systems.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Call for papers: Risk Management in Supply Chains
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Risk Management: Contingent versus Mitigative
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Transportation Hazards
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Book Review: HBR on Supply Chain Management
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
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Highway Vulnerability and Criticality Assessment
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from HERE and THERE
Finding academic articles without academic journals
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Economists versus Technocrats - who wins?
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