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Disaster Relief Supply Chains

On one hand, a disaster relief operation could be viewed as a supply chain operating under an extreme supply chain disruption. On the other hand, a disaster relief operation could also be viewed as a supply chain operating with extreme supply chain flexibility or extreme supply chain agility.

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Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability in Indonesia

Indonesia. A logistical challenge for any supply chain, if not a logistical nightmare, and thus prone to supply chain disruptions. One would think that supply chain risk management would find fertile soil here, but does it?

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Supply chain risk management – a literature review

Is it possible to summarize seven years of supply chain risk management research and find a common theme or definition of what supply chain risk is all about?

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Risk in supply networks - seeing it all, or not?
It is practically impossible to write a paper on supply chain risk without citing Risk in supply net[...]
Logistics risks - the new science?
Can logistics become an academic discipline? And can logistics risk be my new academic discipline? A[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Procurement Risk
"Do yo like living dangerously? Then you should read this book. It exposes you to over seventy types[...]
Book Review: Logistics and Supply Chain Management
This book by Martin Christopher, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, is one of the better if [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Managing supply chain risk
In September and October 2009 the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 500 company executives with r[...]
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
from HERE and THERE
1st Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar
A colleague from the SCNI network sent me a note about this seminar that I was unaware of. The Suppl[...]
Can you outsource risk?
While China has taken steps to address safety concerns after the recalls of last year, yet small pl[...]