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The supply chain of the future

Companies should design their portfolios of manufacturing and supplier networks to minimize the total landed-cost risk under different scenarios. The goal should be identifying a resilient manufacturing and sourcing footprint—even when it’s not necessarily the lowest cost one today.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
The capability concept
Capability is an important measure in addressing vulnerabilities and in assessing resilience. Is the[...]
Supply chain vulnerability: Mitigation strategies
A new outlet for articles on supply chain vulnerability? Perhaps. And actually, it's not that new, s[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
The Resilient Organization
What does it mean to be a resilient organization? That is the topic of  The Resilient Organization, [...]
Book Review: Ethical Risk
This is - for the time being - the sixth and final review of the books in the Gower Short Guides to [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The UK Transport Network Resilience...and I
UK Transport Network Resilience
For a budding and even for a seasoned researcher, nothing is more rewarding than to have one's publi[...]
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
In our interconnected world, safety, reliability and efficiency can only be secured through collabor[...]
from HERE and THERE
Downgrades are upgrades
Time for episode three of "Suitemates", the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis, a Canada-based su[...]
CPM 2010 East in NYC
Behind this perhaps cryptic title (for some, but not for others, especially those in the BCM industr[...]