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Near-shoring – less risk?

The current slowdown in China is due to “near-shoring,” the practice of producing closer to the customer, and NOT as many economists would say, due to a looming economic crisis in China. True?

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SC Design and Management

More than 500-page heavy and laden with examples, this book takes on a unique approach, and teaches you how the supply chain is an integrated part of any business, not something added to it to make the business work. The supply chain is the business; without it, there would be no business.

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Book Review: Operations Rules

This book is about the principles, frameworks and processes that enable the aligning of a company’s specific customer value proposition with its operations strategy.The book is built around 33 rules that cover all possible aspects of supply chain operations and management, and that are placed throughout the eleven chapters of the book.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
The causes of logistics uncertainty
Logistics uncertainty - a new research strand in supply chain risk research? So it would seem, as th[...]
Black Swan Events
Black Swan events - should we even bother? The October issue of the Harvard Business Review had a sp[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: GIS for Transportation
Having been a student with Harvey Miller at the University of Utah 2000-2002 probably makes my revie[...]
Book Review: Strategies and Tactics in Supply Chain Event Management
Operations Management and Logistics have been around for a while, but Supply Chain Management is a r[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2009 - Countries at risk?
How will the current financial downturn affect supply chains? That's what we all wonder about, isn't[...]
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
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The ISCRiM Newsletter 1/2010
If you are a researcher, a student, a professor and if you have an academic interest in Supply Chain[...]
Sparse transportation networks - a nightmare
E6 Steinkjer Løsberga
Now it has happened again. Hardly a week goes by in Norway without a major supply chain disruption. [...]