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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
What kind of Supplychainist are you?
With an ever-increasing number of companies outsourcing all non-core activities and  manufacturing t[...]
Risk Disablers
My latest acquaintance in supply chain risk research methodology is developing  drivers and dependan[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Risk Management Simplified
Risk management. Why make it difficult when you can make it easy? That is perhaps what Andy Osborne [...]
Book Review: Enterprise SCM
Have you ever played SimCity? I never liked Transport Tycoon that much, but I used to play SimCity a[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Critical Infrastructure and Resilience
What happens when a business is disabled for a length of time? What are the impacts on its profitabi[...]
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
from HERE and THERE
Supply Chain Risk - Business Continuity Management
Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) has many similarities with Business Continuity Management (BCM).[...]
A crisis is NOT an opportunity
Time to debunk one of biggest and most persistent myths that has plagued crisis management for more [...]