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A supply chain is never stronger than the weakest link

The article is geared towards company CEOs, advising them not to get too detached from supply management, but rather to actively engage in their company’s supply chain management, particularly in businesses like manufacturing, retail and distribution.

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Book Review: Global Supply Chain Management

This is a handbook indeed, allowing the reader to focus on one area of investigation at the time, while never leaving the whole chain out of sight. My interest in it stems from the fact that it contains a chapter on risk management.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Transportation Resilience
There hasn't been a proper literature review on my blog for a while, but this post will put it right[...]
Disaster Relief Supply Chains
While some aspects of commercial logistics and supply chain management are fully applicable for disa[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Resilience times four
Resilience. It is not so much about reducing the number of things that go wrong, but it is about imp[...]
Understanding risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks
Today's unstable and highly competitive business environment has created a shift in how enterprises [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
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 [...]
Will Climate Change have an impact on transportation?
Many studies have already examined the potential impacts of climate change on broad sectors of the e[...]
from HERE and THERE
Robustness, flexibility and resilience
In a previous paper, back in 2004, I discussed the issue of Flexibility and robustness as options to[...]
The ISCRiM Newsletter 1/2010
If you are a researcher, a student, a professor and if you have an academic interest in Supply Chain[...]