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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
Logistics risks - the new science?
Can logistics become an academic discipline? And can logistics risk be my new academic discipline? A[...]
Robust, Rapid, Resilient
The resilience of infrastructure systems can be measured by two dimensions: robustness, the extent o[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain
This book is a gem. To me. Where Helen Peck in her article Reconciling supply chain vulnerability, r[...]
Book Review: Cooperative Strategy
Cooperative strategy is the attempt by organizations to realize their objectives through cooperation[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The supply chain of the future
Many global supply chains are not equipped to cope with the world we are entering. Most were enginee[...]
Vulnerable or valuable supply chain?
More than a year old now, but still holding not so few words of wisdom is the Pricewaterhouse Cooper[...]
from HERE and THERE
International Transport Economics Conference 2009
If you haven't already done so, make sure to bookmark this conference in your calendar. The Internat[...]
If the UK goes cold, blame me
Still thinking about my recent post on the importance of security of supply, I first added salt and [...]