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Flexing your SCM muscles

Flexible supply chains can indeed “flex” their supply chain management muscles (pun intended) and show the strength that lies in them. With transportation being a key ingredient in any supply chain, much of this strength comes from flexibility in transportation.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
The six ways of dealing with risk
Classic risk management literature acknowledges four ways of dealing with risk after establishing a [...]
Resilience X 10
Transport network resilience has 10 properties. So says Pamela Murray-Tuite in her 2006 article A Co[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Transportation Security
Instead of Transportation Systems Security, which I reviewed in an earlier post, I should have settl[...]
Is Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment the way of the future?
Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment. That is the magic formula that runs like a red thread through John G[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Stemming the rising tide
Are you are taking radically different actions than your peers when it comes to supply chain risk ma[...]
Assess the vulnerability of your production system
So far I have reviewed "international" literature and web sites, and it is only fitting that now it [...]
from HERE and THERE
Food commodity supply chains at risk?
Have the prices gone up at your local supermarket recently? Maybe your favorite chocolate is suddenl[...]
The European Supply Chain & Logistics Summit
In the current financial downturn what should be - or what will be - on the mind of supply chain and[...]