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Diamonds are forever – suppliers not

Supplier development and supplier performance are dependent on the current relationship life cycle phase. The different stages in the supplier relationship life cycle should play an important role in determining how the supply chain can be improved.

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Supply chain risk – in your head?

This article paints an interesting picture of how supply chain professionals view risk, which risk they perceive and what they do in reaction to these risks.

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When your supplier goes bust…

Supply chain risk management must look beyond the individual supplier and look at dependencies within the entire supplier portfolio. Such dependencies may not be obvious at first sight, and this paper presents one very good approach towards discovering these dependencies.

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Book Review: Managing Risk and Security

Many books on supply chain risk do not deal explicitly with supply chain security; at best it is one of many aspects of discussion. This books takes supply chain security a long step forward, as it provides a cross-section of current research and future issues.

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Graph Theory to the rescue

While I know that Graph Theory has many applications, I never expected to see it in Supply Chain Management.

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An empirical investigation into supply chain vulnerability

Drivers of supply chain vulnerability are 1) supply-side risk 2) demand-side risk, 3) catastrophic risk. Sources of risk are a) customer dependence and b) supplier dependence, d) supplier concentration and d) single sourcing and e) global sourcing.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Next time in China: Guanxi
Today's post is an extension of what I wrote yesterday, in my review of what Fu Jia and Christine Ru[...]
Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains
Managing disaster supply chains has much in common with managing supply chain disruptions,  and a d[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Organizing Resilience
Resilience. A word that his been in the media perhaps more than ever before these days. I am of cour[...]
Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks
Done...I finally made it! Today I submitted my full chapter for the book on Managing Risk in Virtual[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Will Climate Change have an impact on transportation?
Many studies have already examined the potential impacts of climate change on broad sectors of the e[...]
The supply chain of the future
A recent report by IBM, referenced by Supply Chain Digest in IBM Lays Out its Vision for the Supply [...]
from HERE and THERE
Pay more get more?
How quickly time flies when you're having fun. And fun it is, watching "Suitemates", the big new mar[...]
Identification and simulation of risks in supply networks
The other day I got an email from Jan Bertrand, a Master student at the University of Technology Ham[...]