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How to Design Mitigation Capabilities

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The severity of supply chain disruptions stems from supply chain design characteristics and supply chain mitigation capabilities: Supply Chain Design: supply chain density,supply chain complexity, node criticality. Supply Chain Mitigation Capability: recovery capability, warning capability.

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Book review: Supply Chain Risk Management

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Edited by Robert B. Handfield, Supply Chain Risk Management: Minimizing Disruptions in Global Sourcing (Resource Management), is not what I thought it would be. Looking at the cover I expected a richly and colorfully illustrated handbook. It is not.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply Risk Management: just common sense?
Am I missing something here? Does Supply Risk Management come down to plain and simple common sense?[...]
Risk & Vulnerability
Supply chains are increasingly becoming complex webs and networks and are no longer straightforward [...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Global Supply Chain Management
The Handbook of Global Supply Chain Management is an excellent book. My interest in it stems from th[...]
Book Review: Political Risk
Egypt is in crisis. After Tunisia, now Egypt is rocked by a popular uprising, and the outcome of the[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Calculating the Value-at-Risk
Some of you may remember that I posted about the SCOR Framework for Supply Chain Risk Management ear[...]
America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
My daily morning routine includes a cup of coffee while watching the World Business Report on BBC Wo[...]
from HERE and THERE
2nd Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar
Do you remember the 1st Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar Barcelona 2009? I made a post about it [...]
The reliability and vulnerability of transportation lifelines
How can we assess how reliable or vulnerable the transportation is, and which parameters can we appl[...]