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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
Risky decisions - just do it, or not?
Choosing the right supplier is a risky decision. Chose the wrong supplier, and you may face a severe[...]
Estimation of disruption risk
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: Transport - Economics and Management
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Book review: The Network Reliability of Transport
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
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How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
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from HERE and THERE
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Call for papers – MITIP 2009
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