Tag Archives: supply chain books

Jumpstart your VEN adventure

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Revised on: 2011-03-06

This is a terrific book. As you will know from my post  the other day, I am currently writing a book chapter on risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks (VENs), and I have used The Networked Enterprise by Ken Thompson as what I would call THE reference on how to manage VENs. The goal of a VEN is to connect Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) into peer networks, supported by appropriate collaboration practices and technologies, to give them the capabilities and competitive advantages of large global enterprises. How is this possible?

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Book Review: Supply Chain Risk

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

A comment on a a previous book review – Supply Chain Risk Managament by Donald Waters – prompted me to write this review on a new book on supply chain risk which adresses the commenters concern, namely the lack of scientific or academic usefulness. Where Donald Water’s book was written with the manager in mind, this book – Supply Chain Risk – A Handbook of Assessment, Managment and Performance – by George Zsidisin and Bob Ritchie, is a collection of contributions from established and not so established, renown and not so well-known scholars and practitioners in the field of supply chain risk.

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Book Review: Research Methodologies in SCM

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Revised on: 2015-09-10

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. Every budding supply chain researcher (and senior researcher for that matter)  should read this book. Within the 36 chapters 70 authors bring together a rich selection of theoretical and practical examples of how research methodologies are applied in supply chain management.

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The Nordic approach to Logistics and Supply Chain Management?

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Revised on: 2015-09-29

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 by Jan Stentoft Arlbjørn, Árni Halldórsson, Marianne Jahre, Karen Spens (eds.).  I came across this book while doing some Google searches on supply chain risk, ending up on www.interorgainisational.org, a site run by two university professors, Gyöngyi Kovács and Arni Halldorsson, and dedicated to showing a different side of logistics than the pure business and money focus it usually has. Halldorson is also a contributor to the book.

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Book review: Supply Chain Risk Management

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

Edited by Robert B. Handfield, the book 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. I have to say that I am actually rather disappointed at this book, and I will tell you exactly why. That said, it is far from worthless, by all means, and there are many things that are worth reading, but it’s just not what I expected.

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Book Review: Logistics and Supply Chain Management

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Revised on: 2011-04-29

This book by Martin Christopher, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, is one of the better if not among the best books on supply chain management. Written by Professor Martin Christopher of the Cranfield School of Management, the book deals particularly with best practices in supply chain management in the current era of globalization. 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

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

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 perspective on what the term “supply chain” actually entails. Here comes a new view: Strategies and Tactics in Supply Chain Event Management. Supply chain EVENT management or SCEM, in essence a scenario tool, is a consideration of all possible occurring events and factors that can cause a disruption in a supply chain.

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Book Review: Supply Chain Risk

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Revised on: 2011-05-23

This book, Supply Chain Risk, is from 2004 and edited by Clare Brindley of the Manchester Metropolitan University, the founder of the International Supply Chain Risk Management Network (ISCRiM). It 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.

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Book Review: Supply Chain Risk Management

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Revised on: 2011-03-12

This excellent book by Donald Waters, Supply Chain Risk Management: Vulnerability and Resilience in Logistics, 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 bought this book as a text book, and as such it does a great job. It is perhaps not so well suited for the academically inclined, or for researching supply chain risk, or perhaps it is indeed, as it lets you not forget the real world and its real problems.

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Book Review: The Resilient Enterprise

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Revised on: 2015-09-08

To me, this book by Yossi Sheffi was an eye-opener, not so much for it’s academic value, but for it’s “entertainment” value, “entertainment” as in “stop-you-in-your-tracks-and-make-you-think”-value. 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. Sheffi’s analysis of how and why things go wrong or right is spot on and to the point.

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Book Review: Logistics Management and Strategy

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

Logistics Management and Strategy by Alan Harrison and Remko van Hoek does come at very hefty price, but it is so much worth it. 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. In addition the figures and illustrations are clear cut and easy to understand. A must have for both student and practitioner.

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