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Shippers, carriers and disruptions

While carriers focus on the immediate and short-term impact and how to solve the situation, .i.e how to deliver on time if still possible, shippers focus more on the strategic and long-term impact and on how to avoid the situation, i.e. how to prevent this from happening again.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply chain risk management - a literature review
Is it possible to summarize  seven years of supply chain risk management research and find a common [...]
Toy stories: lessons to be learned
Christmas. Toys. Two things that belong together. But it isn't always a happy story. Not only do sea[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Operations Rules
Operations Rules by David Simchi-Levi comes with an ambiguous title. You can read this two ways: 1) [...]
Book Review: Virtual Teams
This is another post resulting from my literature review when researching background material for my[...]
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[...]
Critical Infrastructure and Resilience
What happens when a business is disabled for a length of time? What are the impacts on its profitabi[...]
from HERE and THERE
Business continuity 101
This is the 3rd day with severe transportation and thus supply chain disruptions all over Europe, du[...]
TRB 2009 - are you going there, too?
Are you presenting at the TRB 2009, the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting? Personally I c[...]