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How to Design Mitigation Capabilities

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Revised on: 2015-09-26

There hasn’t been a literature review on this blog for a while, so it’s time to pick up where I left. Jumping from 1997 in review of Asbjørnslett’s “Assess the vulnerability of your production system” to 2007 in today’s review, I can tell that supply chain research has made a big leap forward. Today’s article presents six propositions that relate the severity of supply chain disruptions to supply chain design characteristics and supply chain mitigation capabilities, illustrating the connections between supply chain risk, vulnerability, resilience, and business continuity planning.

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Book review: Supply Chain Risk Management

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

Edited by Robert B. Handfield, the book 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. I have to say that I am actually rather disappointed at this book, and I will tell you exactly why. That said, it is far from worthless, by all means, and there are many things that are worth reading, but it’s just not what I expected.

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