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Risk Management in Global Supply Chain Networks

Supply Chain Risks can be classified as either one of these three, Deviation, Disruption or Disaster, and can be approached using either a Preventive or an Interceptive approach; the former attempts to build in risk tolerance, the latter attempts to contain the damage or impact of an undesired event.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Structural embeddedness and the extended supply chain
The other day, while reviewing a chapter for inclusion (or not) in the upcoming book Managing Risk i[...]
The impact of supply chain glitches
The other day I wrote about supply chains and  disasters. Today I will deal with something that is m[...]
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[...]
Book Review: Transportation Network Analysis
Transportation Network Analysis by M. G. H. Bell and Yasunori Iida is a book for the expert rather t[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The Benefits of Investing in Supply Chain Security
With the memory of attacks by Somali pirates still fresh in mind, supply chain security has come to [...]
Zycus and the Supply Risk Explosion
"Ten or fifteen years ago, you could not convince most procurement and supply-chain professionals to[...]
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Should you join the Supply Chain Network SCN?
I joined SCN two days ago, and it has been very rewarding so far. The Supply Chain Network SCN marke[...]
Robustness, flexibility and resilience
In a previous paper, back in 2004, I discussed the issue of Flexibility and robustness as options to[...]