Business Continuity is a crucial ingredient of supply chain management. At the same time, implementing business continuity principles in supply chains is really simple. So says Steve Cartland in his book chapter on Business Continuity Challenges in Global Supply Chains in the book titled Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems, published in 2006. Cartland’s chapter is the last of the 19 chapters in the book, and the only chapter touching upon business continuity. Unfortunately. I think this chapter should have been first.

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