Tag Archives: supply chain blogs

Blog Review: Commitment Matters

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Revised on: 2011-05-26

It’s time for another blog review, and this month’s featured blog has been on my radar for quite some time. Looking at the date stamp on the original draft, it has actually been on my mind (or actually not) since 14 November 2009, that is 18 months almost to the day. It is Tim Cummins’ Commitment Matters. In Tim’s own words, it is a blog that will be of greatest interest to those who select, negotiate or manage relationships with trading partners – customers, suppliers, strategic alliances, teaming agreements or channels. A bold statement, but Tim holds what he promises. Tim surely knows his way around business relationships and how they can make or break a company and he stays true to his tagline, which reads Managing Trading Relationships in the Global Networked Economy. A blog for our time?

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Blog Review: The SCRMBlog

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Revised on: 2015-09-12

It’s Friday, and there hasn’t be a blog review for a long time, so perhaps it’s time to resurrect the “supply chain blogs of note” series that some time ago I said I would do every month, but have sadly neglected. My featured blog this month is the SCRMBlog by Daniel Stengel, as it happens perhaps my fiercest competitor in the supply chain risk blogging scene, if there indeed is such a scene. Daniel’s blog has existed for not more than a little over a year, but he has already made considerable impact, and I often find him reviewing papers I haven’t heard of yet, or worse, have heard of and put on my to-do list, but not yet blogged about, meaning that he beat me to the finish line. Well, Daniel, this post is for you.

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Cutting costs or cutting risks?

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Revised on: 2011-03-17

One of the blogs I like to browse from time to time, particularly when looking for topics related to resilience and business, is the Enterprise Resilience Management Blog. Written by Stephen F. DeAngelis, a technologist who creates businesses at the intersection of technology and major business and global trends, I like it because he takes bits and pieces from a variety of online, i.e. Internet sources and produces extensively long posts, a skill I have yet to learn as far as this blog goes. Every now and then, actually more than now and then recently, the blog has posts on supply chain issues and today I stumbled upon a June 2010 post on supply chain risk management, where he explains how cost-cutting can be the supply chain’s worst enemy. This is the first time I have spent some considerable time on DeAngelis’ blog, and it is not going to be the last time.

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Supply Chain Risk Insights

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Revised on: 2015-09-12

Today’s title serves two purposes: Firstly, it describes what I take back from the ISCRiM 2010 seminar I attended this week, where I had the chance to meet a small selection of who’s who in supply chain risk research. Secondly, it is the name of a fascinating new website I learned of at the seminar. Set up by Zurich Insurance, the website is aimed at helping senior managers and directors in finance, supply chain, operations and risk develop a deeper understanding of the tactical considerations and strategic approaches to minimize impacts of disruptions to the supply chain. And this is a site that is definitely worth having in your bookmarks.

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The @risk Blog

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

It is always nice to find blogs on supply chain risk written by a professional with extensive knowledge of the field he is covering. Kevin Cornish‘s @risk blog is such a blog. Judging by the list of tags in his sidebar there is very little that escapes his watchful eye, with topics touching upon anything ranging from employee absentism, food safety, to the more obvious: risk mitigation and supplier risk. There is such a wealth of information I am not sure where to begin.

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Blog Review: The Kinaxis Blog

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Revised on: 2011-08-26

I said in my post on Bob Ferrari’s blog Supply Chain Matters that I was going to resurrect my previous habit of presenting and reviewing supply chain risk blogs. A promise is a promise, so here is a high-quality blog for you, the Kinaxis Blog, or as they put it themselves: The 21st Century Supply Chain. And is it a correct tagline? Yes, I think so. But is there anything supply chain risk? Oh yes, most definitely so, very much indeed. Actually, I should have known, because no less than two days ago I was referring to an interview with Gary Lynch, when reviewing his latest book, The Single Point of Failure.

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Blog Review: Supply Chain Matters

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Revised on: 2011-08-26

Today I am resurrecting a long neglected task, my review of selected blogs and websites that deal with supply chain risk and related issues. It is almost a year since last time a blog was added here, and one of the reasons why I haven’t done so is that a) this blog has turned its attention towards literature reviews as the main focus, and b) there are simply too many blogs to mention them all. Noneless, today I’m resuming my reviews,  and the first one out is Bob Ferrari’s Supply Chain Matters blog.

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Risk Central

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

Risk Central is a private and personal initiative and web portal started by Roberto Pinto, assistant professor and Ph.D student at the University of Bergamo, Department of Industrial Engineering – with the aim at collecting and share with other interested people news, facts, stories, events, experiences, discussions and whatever could be related to Risk Management, Business Continuity Management, Vulnerability Management, Resilient Enterprise and related topics.

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