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A supply chain is never stronger than the weakest link

Are you the weakest link in your own supply chain? That’s the question asked in an article in the Harvard Business Review some time ago. 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. This article may not be that much related to supply chain risk, but it is not totally unrelated.

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Book Review: Global Supply Chain Management

The Handbook of Global Supply Chain Management is an excellent book. My interest in it stems from the fact that it contains a chapter on risk management. It was after reading Manuj and Mentzer’s articles on Global Supply Chain Risk Management and Global Supply Chain Risk Management Strategies that I came across this book, when searching for more papers from Mentzer and/or Manuj, and naturally, I decided to see if there was something on supply chain risk in it. There was.

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