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Networks and other resources for Supply Chain Professionals

Disruptions in supply networks

Supply chain disturbances and supply chain disruptions. Not the same and very different from each other. The former can be managed and solved within an established supply chain, the latter often requires establishing a new supply network. Understanding this difference is crucially important.

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The Supply Chain Network Project

Do you want to keep in touch with all aspects of the global supply chain network? SCN is a network of people, a network of ideas and information, a means for designing, building, improving and managing your physical network and a source for services to facilitate your network.

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NOFOMA – The Nordic Logistics Research Network

The Nordic Logistics Research Network (NOFOMA) is a network of Nordic researchers within the field of Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Why haven’t I heard about this before…stupid me! It’s amazing how one can be a researcher in a certain field without being aware of the most obvious network one should join.

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Should you join the Supply Chain Network SCN?

From a quick browse before making this post I realized there are quite a number of highly qualified and merited members, which most certainly will help me keep up to date the latest in Supply Chain Management.

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International Supply Chain Risk Management

The International Supply Chain Risk Management Network (ISCRIM) is a network of academics interested in how to handle different types of risks in the supply chain. The main purpose of the ISCRIM-network is to speed up, and improve, the research within “Supply Chain Risk Management”.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Risks in maritime supply chains
Globalization and international trade is heavily reliant on safe and open waterways. Sea transport c[...]
What is risk?
What is risk, and how can it be expressed? Should risk be defined through probabilities or should ri[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: The Geography of Transport Systems
This is a book I've wanted to lay my hands on for a long time. The Geography of Transport Systems by[...]
Supply Chain Risk - the forgotten discipline
No, it's not that supply chain risk is a forgotten discipline, it' is well and alive an kicking, it'[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Engineering transportation lifelines
New Zealand is probably not the fist country that comes to mind when thinking of state-of-the-art tr[...]
Global Risk Reports
While waiting for the World Economic Forum Global Risk Report for 2009, the continuation of the Glob[...]
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Why risk is the buzzword in supply chain management
A new field has emerged with the field of supply chain mangement. It's called supply chain risk. Wha[...]
Does a blog have a supply chain?
I admit this does sound funny, but is it possible to say that a blog has a supply chain? And if that[...]