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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
Supply Chain Risk Literature: a complete review
Finally, here it is, the complete review of supply chain risk. At least by the looks of it. Supply c[...]
Supply Risk Management: just common sense?
Am I missing something here? Does Supply Risk Management come down to plain and simple common sense?[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Enterprise SCM
Have you ever played SimCity? I never liked Transport Tycoon that much, but I used to play SimCity a[...]
Book review: GIS for Transportation
Having been a student with Harvey Miller at the University of Utah 2000-2002 probably makes my revie[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Infrastructure - essential for competitiveness?
Regular readers of this blog may have noticed my regular rants about the state of the Norwegian infr[...]
Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
Supply chains have gone global. No longer are they a point-to-chain of goods flowing from a source t[...]
from HERE and THERE
It's already happening...in Norway?
The food supply chain. Did you know that 25% of the world's food supply are lost because of spoilage[...]
7 out of 10 businesses without a continuity plan
An article today in the paper issue of Dagens Næringsliv, the Norwegian equivalent of the Financial [...]