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Supply Chain Logistics Risk in Germany

What are the most common supply chain and logistics risks in Germany? What risks does the logistics industry perceive? This study separates business risks from logistics providers risk, that is a novel approach, and this is perhaps the most complete overview of supply chain and logistics risks I have seen to date.

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State of the art in SCRM?

Supply chain risk management is a process with 5 evolutionary steps, involving no less than 17 underlying principles. The conceptual framework developed in this article clearly identifies the main principles of SCRM and develops a framework and definitions for disturbance, disruption, security, resilience and risk.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Building the resilient supply chain
Following up last weeks post on a 2003 UK report on supply chain resilience, here is another "spin-o[...]
Not all risk is risk
How to define, understand and describe risk
I had planned to post this yesterday, when I was taken by surprise by the most severe supply chain a[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Is Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment the way of the future?
Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment. That is the magic formula that runs like a red thread through John G[...]
Book review: The Network Reliability of Transport
I guess you would have to have attended the conference yourself or be a researcher in this very fiel[...]
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 [...]
Critical Infrastructure and Resilience
What happens when a business is disabled for a length of time? What are the impacts on its profitabi[...]
from HERE and THERE
ETC 2012 - Call for papers
Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2012, the European Transport Conference or ETC is unique in Euro[...]
Robustness, flexibility and resilience
In a previous paper, back in 2004, I discussed the issue of Flexibility and robustness as options to[...]