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Robustness, resilience, flexibility and agility

These concepts are often confused, and thus, warrant further explanation. They are distinctively different.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Managing risk in global supply chains
The book Strategies for Building Successful Global Businesses, by the INSEAD-Wharton Alliance on Glo[...]
SCRIM is the new SCRM
Does supply chain risk management SCRM need another model? Perhaps. That's what a group of academics[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Low Cost Country Sourcing
Low-cost countries. A dream for some and a nightmare for other others. What are typical supply chain[...]
The Resilient Organization
What does it mean to be a resilient organization? That is the topic of  The Resilient Organization, [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
A Decade of Living Dangerously
Do you remember the movie The Year of Living Dangerously with Mel Gibson? Topically unrelated maybe,[...]
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
from HERE and THERE
Trade compliance risks
Although "German" traffic from countries like Germany, Austria and Switzerland make up less than 10[...]
Bad locations = bad logistics?
How are companies located in sparse transport networks affected by supply chain disruptions? This ar[...]