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3PL Outsourcing – Challenges and Benefits

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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
Sheffi's Resilient Enterprise and supply chain risk
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Fragility and sustainability: emerging research areas?
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Ethical Risk
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risk Reports
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Global Risks 2008 - A prediction come true
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from HERE and THERE
Sustainability means less vulnerability?
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Identification and simulation of risks in supply networks
The other day I got an email from Jan Bertrand, a Master student at the University of Technology Ham[...]