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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
How to secure your supply chain - 3/7
Today's post is part three of my continuing journey through the Swedish handbook titled "Säkra föret[...]
Cry Wolf?
Resilience Adviser or Scaremonger? What am I really? That is what started to ask myself after I[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Supply Chain Risk - Jetzt auch auf Deutsch
Unbeknown to me - or perhaps I really should have known better - there appears to be a large body of[...]
Book Review: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
This book, The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measur[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
We are living in a new world of risk that is making this world unprecedentedly complex and challengi[...]
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
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[...]
Book Review: Transportation Systems Security
This book, Transportation Systems Security by by Allan McDougall and Robert Radvanovsky is not what [...]