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Zycus and the Supply Risk Explosion

Today’s list of supply-related risks can seem nearly infinite and how can any firm not be overwhelmed by this? Zycus, the self-proclaimed spend management experts, have written a whitepaper about it, where they detail how firms can move towards holistic supply-risk management.

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Book Review: Procurement Risk

Not only will this book help procurement professionals to lift their head from their desks and gain a wider perspective on possible ramifications of their purchasing decisions, it will also help top managers to seeing procurement as a crucial contributor to a company’s well-being and competitive advantage.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply chain management - the new research cocktail?
Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way that is focused on theory buil[...]
Estimation of disruption risk
How to estimate the disruption risk exposure in a supply chain? That is the question asked by Ulf Pa[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Security and continuity of supply
Aah...the intricacies of the English language. Not supply (chain) security, but the security of supp[...]
Supply Chain Risk - the forgotten discipline
No, it's not that supply chain risk is a forgotten discipline, it' is well and alive an kicking, it'[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
28 Global Risks in 2015
The  World Economic Forum Global Risks Reports. I first came across them in 2008, when the hyperopti[...]
A risky business? The top 10 challenges of offshoring
Organisations embarking on offshoring face multiple challenges; many of which can be extremely daunt[...]
from HERE and THERE
Remote Logistics
Yesterday I was talking about emergency logistics, today it is remote logistics. The other day I ca[...]
Somali pirates forcing ships to make detour
In an earlier article today I quoted several sources saying that shipping companies are now seriousl[...]