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The supply chain of the future

Companies should design their portfolios of manufacturing and supplier networks to minimize the total landed-cost risk under different scenarios. The goal should be identifying a resilient manufacturing and sourcing footprint—even when it’s not necessarily the lowest cost one today.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Risk Disablers
My latest acquaintance in supply chain risk research methodology is developing  drivers and dependan[...]
3PL - a risk orchestrator?
Historically, third-party logistics providers, or 3PLs, provided traditional logistics services, suc[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: The Network Reliability of Transport
I guess you would have to have attended the conference yourself or be a researcher in this very fiel[...]
Book Review: Humanitarian Logistics
Summer break is over and time for a continuation of my blog posts. Humanitarian Logistics by Ronaldo[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Critical Infrastructure and Resilience
What happens when a business is disabled for a length of time? What are the impacts on its profitabi[...]
America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
My daily morning routine includes a cup of coffee while watching the World Business Report on BBC Wo[...]
from HERE and THERE
Resilience as a job description
Ever since I started to work for the Southern Region office of the Norwegian Public Roads Administra[...]
The BBC box
I usually watch the BBC World Business Report every morning and today I learned that BBC News is fol[...]