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Finding the right location – minimizing disruption costs

Classical facility location models assume that once optimally located and set up, facilities will operate as planned, smoothly, and without interruption. In reality, though, operations seldom go as planned; interruptions, unscheduled downtime and failures occur every once in a while, with unplanned and unbudgeted disruption costs as a consequence.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
A new supply chain perspective: The supply chain life cycle
It is not often that I come across papers with a holistic view of the supply chain as a living and d[...]
Risk management: core competence?
Is risk management overlooked as an important source of competitive advantage? That is the question [...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Transportation Security
Instead of Transportation Systems Security, which I reviewed in an earlier post, I should have settl[...]
Book Review: Supply Chain Risk
A comment on a a previous book review - Supply Chain Risk Managament by Donald Waters - prompted me [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
London Olympics and Business Continuity
Are UK businesses, and in particular London businesses, unprepared for the London Olympics in 2012? [...]
Calculating the Value-at-Risk
Some of you may remember that I posted about the SCOR Framework for Supply Chain Risk Management ear[...]
from HERE and THERE
Managing Supply Chain Risk
Did you know that the Supply Chain Council (SCS) has extended their renown SCOR-model  to Supply Cha[...]
Resilience as a job description
Ever since I started to work for the Southern Region office of the Norwegian Public Roads Administra[...]