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Jumpstart your VEN adventure

A VEN is a way for businesses to achieve virtual scale, enabling it to operate as if it possesses more resources and capacity than it actually has within its own physical organizations.

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Book Review: Supply Chain Risk

The primary purpose of this book is to collect and share various streams of research and trends in supply chain risk, predominantly from the ISCRIM (International Supply Chain Risk Management) network.

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Book Review: Research Methodologies in SCM

Is there something like the right research design for supply chain studies? I believe there is, and in Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management it is more than likely that you too will find a research approach that will suit your needs.

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The Nordic approach to Logistics and Supply Chain Management?

Is there such a thing as a typically Nordic way of thinking within the field of Supply Chain Management? A new book is out, trying to answer that question: Northern Lights in Logistics & Supply Chain Management

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Book review: Supply Chain Risk Management

Edited by Robert B. Handfield, Supply Chain Risk Management: Minimizing Disruptions in Global Sourcing (Resource Management), is not what I thought it would be. Looking at the cover I expected a richly and colorfully illustrated handbook. It is not.

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Book Review: Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Responsiveness, reliability and relationships are the basis for successful logistics and supply chain management. Strategies like Just-In-Time (JIT), Lean and Agile thinking are reviewed, and last not least, there is a chapter on supply chain risk.

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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 relatively new field, and it’s still struggling to come up with a uniform language or a uniform perspectiveLaden with case studies this book thoroughly explains what possible problems that can arise in a supply chain and how to deal with them.

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Book Review: Supply Chain Risk

This book contains 11 chapters written by 11 different authors, each exploring 11 different supply chain contexts and thus 11 different views on supply chain risks and offering 11 different research frameworks, techniques and practices. The book fully shows that supply chain risk management is a wide field, and thus empirically challenging, with many concepts to be explored.

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Book Review: Supply Chain Risk Management

This excellent book by Donald Waters offers a comprehensive overview of many important issues in managing supply chain risk. More than 15 case studies and a straightforward hands-on practical approach make this book an enjoyable read. I almost forgot that I bought this book as a text book.

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Book Review: The Resilient Enterprise

Excellently written, The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage does not necessarily provide concrete solutions for your own business, but it showcases how other companies, successfully or not, handled various crisis situations.

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Book Review: Logistics Management and Strategy

I have found it hard to find a book that explains the concepts of logistics and supply chain management in a clearer fashion than this book. Every chapter features a number of case studies in which the theory is discussed in-depth.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Corporate vulnerability
Göran Svensson is one of the leading key figures in supply chain vulnerability research and his conc[...]
How to secure your supply chain - 7/7
This is the final part of my translation of the  Swedish book “Säkra företagets flöden”, published[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Managing External Risk
I am blessed to have a college library that complies with most of my book acquisition requests and t[...]
Book Review: Managing Risk and Security
One of my readers suggested this book to me via  a comment on my supply chain literature list pages[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Saving Norway's crumbling infrastructure
NTP 2010-2019
Following up my post this morning called "D-Day for Norway's Transport Infrastructure", the numbers [...]
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
from HERE and THERE
Secure Supply Chain Collaboration
Slightly outside the scope of this blog, which deals more with the management side of supply chain r[...]
CSCMP Europe 2009 Conference
The phrase "Supply chains compete, not companies" was coined by Martin Christopher, and it is a fitt[...]