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3PL Outsourcing – Challenges and Benefits

Outsourcing and relying on a third-party provider for logistics, or 3PL in short, can be quite a cost-saver, but is not without caveats. While there are significant benefits, there are also a number of challenges: current requirements, future growth, information exchange and security.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
A conceptual framework for supply chain vulnerability
Today's article is one of the earlier works on supply chain vulnerability, published in 2000. A conc[...]
How to secure your supply chain
"Secure the company's flows" or "Säkra företagets flöden" in the original Swedish language is the ti[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
SC Design and Management
More than 500-page heavy and laden with real-life examples and thoroughly calculated details, Design[...]
Book Review: Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management
First published in 1998 and now already in its 3rd edition in 2009, but still unknown to me, althoug[...]
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[...]
The supply chain of the future
A recent report by IBM, referenced by Supply Chain Digest in IBM Lays Out its Vision for the Supply [...]
from HERE and THERE
Google Scholar - really scholarly?
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Remember my previous post on Online Journals – curse or blessing? Here’s another take on the issue o[...]
Supply Chain Risk Management Survey
Effective Supply Chain Risk Management has become one of the key ways of securing competitive advant[...]