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Humanitarian and military supply chains side-by side

Only by combining military and humanitarian supply chains, the strengths of both types of logistics can be exploited, and the extreme agility of rescue organizations can be matched with the extreme efficiency of the military.

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A lesson in supply chain disruption: German railways during WWII

Supply chain disruptions have occurred as frequently in the past as today, and particular within the military in war times. A supply chain serving a war machine is under extreme strain, but is an essential element in winning or losing not only a battle or two, but an entire war.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Cry Wolf?
Resilience Adviser or Scaremonger? What am I really? That is what started to ask myself after I[...]
Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains
Managing disaster supply chains has much in common with managing supply chain disruptions,  and a d[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review:Managing Risks in Supply Chains
To make up for yesterday's perhaps overly harsh critique of just one article from this book, this is[...]
Risk and vulnerability in maritime supply chains
This week's focus are risks in the maritime supply chain. Today's article reflects on security in ma[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply Chain Security
Today's supply chains circle the globe and form the backbone of world trade and a are major factor i[...]
Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
Supply chains have gone global. No longer are they a point-to-chain of goods flowing from a source t[...]
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Today's transport disruption: volcanoes
I haven't had a "In the news" post for quite some time, but now Norway and much of Northern Europe a[...]
How to disrupt a supply chain
This is a brief description of a model I developed for supply chain risk and vulnerability, with ris[...]