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Managing risk together

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Revised on: 2015-09-08

Purchasing theory… I have to admit it’s not one of my particular strongholds, but several of my readers and commenters have mentioned this article, most recently in a comment on A future research agenda for supply chain risk management, so I thought that perhaps I should have a look at it. After all, supplier relationships have been on my blog time and again , so why not? In their 2005 article  Risk-based classification of supplier relationships by a Finnish quartet from the Lappeenranann University of Technology, Jukka Hallikas, Kaisu Puumalainen, Toni Vesterinen and Veli-Matti Virolainen set out to develop a new classification scheme for suppliers, based on buyer dependency risk and supplier dependency risk.

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Friend or foe or both?

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Revised on: 2015-09-12

Supply chain collaboration, easy or difficult? And can it really work? In theory yes, but in reality? Maybe not. While supply chain collaboration has been hailed by many as the way to improve supply chain performance, more often than not supply chain partnerships fails miserably, because the required prerequisites are not met by the companies involved. Obviously, collaborations that fail can be an unexpected major supply chain risk, or perhaps it should have been foreseen? In their 2006 article Realities of supply chain collaboration, R. Kampstra, J. Ashayeri, & J. Gattorna aim to investigate the gap between the interests in supply chain collaboration and the relatively few recorded cases of successful applications. In the end they develop a framework for what it takes to make collaboration work in supply chains.

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