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Managing supply chains in times of crisis

Posted on 2010-03-05 by

How do you prepare a supply chain for a crisis, and how do you manage a supply chain when the unexpected hits you?

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Capar Ismail, crisis management, Narayanan Arunachalam, Natarajarathinam Malini, research blogging, risk management, supply chain resilience, supply chain risk

Risk Disablers

Posted on 2010-03-03 by

A new framework for the interpretation of supply chain risk mitigation measures? Interpreted structural modelling.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Banwet D K, Faisal Mohd Nishat, interpretive structural modelling, research blogging, risk management, Shankar Ravi, supply chain risk

Community resilience in times of disaster

Posted on 2010-03-01 by

Can public-private partnerships improve community resilience? In order to achieve community resilience public and private owners of critical infrastructures and key resources must work together, before, during and after a disaster.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: critical infrastructure, Kolluru Ramesh, research blogging, resilience, Smith Mark, Stewart Geoffrey T, supply chain resilience

Certain death: Not risky. Uncertain death: risky.

Posted on 2010-02-26 by

It is only when the consequences of actions and events are uncertain that these actions and events are truly risky.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Aven Terje, research blogging, risk analysis, risk management, supply chain risk

Information Risk Management

Posted on 2010-02-23 by

The article highlights that information risks are interrelated and that one factor (or “enabler”) cannot be mitigated without taking into account all the other factors that contribute to or are dependent on this factor.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Banwet D K, Faisal Mohd Nishat, graph theory, interpretive structural modelling, research blogging, risk management, Shankar Ravi, supply chain risk

Risk Analysis of Critical Infrastructures

Posted on 2010-02-20 by

This article presents a new conceptual approach and extended analytical tool for risks in critical infrastructures, and shows how external factors are a major contributor to the risk and interconnectedness of critical infrastructures.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: critical infrastructure, Kröger Wolfgang, research blogging, risk analysis, supply chain risk

Supply Chain Risk: Invasive Species

Posted on 2010-02-12 by

The global network of ships criss-crossing the oceans provide perhaps the most important mode of transportation for the spread of invasive species that “hitch-hike” with these ships.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Blasius Bernd, Gastner Michael T., global supply chains, Kaluza Pablo, Kölzsch Andrea, maritime logistics, maritime supply chains, research blogging, supply chain risk

SME: A supply chain risk?

Posted on 2010-01-05 by

Does having Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in your supply chain constitute an increased exposure to supply chain risk?

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: business continuity, Finch Peter, research blogging, SME, supply chain risk, virtual enterprise

Supply Chain Risk Literature: a complete review

Posted on 2010-01-04 by

Finally, here it is, the complete review of some 160 or so articles in supply chain risk and risk management.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Goldsby Thomas J, Rao Shashank, research blogging, risk, risk analysis, supply chain risk

Risk and vulnerability in maritime supply chains

Posted on 2009-12-15 by

The complex interaction of ports, maritime operations and supply chains creates vulnerabilities that requires analysis that extends beyond the immediate visible.

Posted in BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Tags: Barnes Paul, maritime logistics, maritime supply chains, Oloruntoba Richard, research blogging, security, supply chain risk, supply chain security

Risks and supply chains… stochastically speaking2

Posted on 2009-12-08 by

Little did I know when I started reading this paper that it was written by he who is the editor for Finance in the Journal of Applied Stochastic Models for Business and Industry and who has published 12 books and more than 250 papers on risk management and stochastic modelling in operations, insurance and finance.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Grando Alberto, research blogging, supply chain risk, Tapiero Charles

Supply Chain Confidence

Posted on 2009-12-07 by

Traditionally, papers on supply chain risk use the “classic” supply-demand-internal-external scheme for classifying supply supply chain risk sources. Christopher and Lee do not. They see risk as primarily related to uncertainty, volatility and turbulence

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Christopher Martin, Lee Hau, research blogging, supply chain confidence, supply chain risk, supply chain visibility

Risk & Vulnerability

Posted on 2009-12-04 by

Supply chains are increasingly becoming complex webs and networks and are no longer straightforward chains with just a few links between supplier and customer.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Einarsson Stefan, Rausand Marvin, research blogging, risk, risk analysis, supply chain risk, supply chain vulnerability, vulnerability, vulnerability analysis

Risky ramblings

Posted on 2009-12-03 by

Here, six areas of supply chain risk are highlighted and discussed at length, showing how they are endemic to the extended enterprise, and indeed, a lengthy discussion it is.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Davis Edward W, research blogging, Spekman Robert E, supply chain risk

Perspectives on risk management in supply chains

Posted on 2009-12-01 by

Today’s article is actually not an article on it’s own, but an editorial to a special 2009 issue of the Journal of Operations Management, dedicated to supply chain risk.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Narasimham Ram, research blogging, supply chain risk, Talluri Srinivas

Road Vulnerability

Posted on 2009-11-27 by

Today we are going back in time, to one of the seminal articles in road vulnerability. It is a conceptual paper that provides the basis for why road vulnerability needs to be a more important issue .

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Berdica Katja, critical infrastructure, research blogging, transport vulnerability, transportation lifelines, vulnerability, vulnerability analysis

Emergency Logistics

Posted on 2009-11-24 by

Can commercial logistics’ ideas and solutions work in humanitarian supply chains? No. Why? Well, perhaps they could work, but in most cases they won’t.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Beresford Anthony, humanitarian logistics, humanitarian supply chains, Pettit Stephen, research blogging, supply chain flexibility, supply chain risk

Mitigating supply chain disruptions

Posted on 2009-11-17 by

Christopher Tang from UCLA talks about three strategies for building a robust supply chain, related to (1) supply, (2) product, and (3) demand.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: research blogging, risk management, supply chain disruption, supply chain risk, supply chain robustness, Tang Christopher

Supply, Demand, and … “Miscellanous” Risk?

Posted on 2009-11-16 by

I’ve said so before, sometimes new articles are found in new and unlikely places and here is a chance to learn something new.

Posted in ARTICLES and PAPERS
Tags: Gopalakrishnan Mohan, Oke Adegoke, research blogging, risk mitigation, supply chain disruption, supply chain risk

Critical: Beer Distribution

Posted on 2009-11-06 by

Beer distribution is a sector that will be highly affected by a supply chain disruption…in the UK. You could even say that beer distribution is part of the UK critical infrastructure.