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Supply chain vulnerability: Mitigation strategies

Which mitigation strategy that works best when faced with which supply chain catastrophe? This is a paper that every supply chain manager should read, at least once.

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Measuring supply chain risk management

There can be no generally valid risk for all types of supply chains, but risks must be defined from within the context of the supply chain that is the subject of analysis.

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Measuring supply chain risk management

Each individual supply chain is unique in certain respects and this uniqueness may require unique approaches to the management of the risks involved.

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Less supply chain disruptions with vendor managed inventory?

How does a traditional supply chain compare to a vendor managed inventory supply chain when it comes to performance during disruptions?

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
The difference between legal and illegal supply chains
For a budding researcher, other people's PhD papers or dissertations can be a true inspiration and g[...]
A Future Research Agenda for Supply Chain Risk
When Manuj and Mentzer (2008) wrote their article titled Global Supply Chain Risk Management, they [...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: Transport - Economics and Management
Kept at an executive level, Transport: An Economics and Management Perspective by David A. Hensher a[...]
Book Review: Transportation Security
Instead of Transportation Systems Security, which I reviewed in an earlier post, I should have settl[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Risk management - Vocabulary
What is risk management in supply chains? The more I study supply chain risk management, the more co[...]
Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
Supply chains have gone global. No longer are they a point-to-chain of goods flowing from a source t[...]
from HERE and THERE
Supply Chain Performance Metrics
Financial key performance indicators are valuable because they capture the economic consequences of [...]
Food commodity supply chains at risk?
Have the prices gone up at your local supermarket recently? Maybe your favorite chocolate is suddenl[...]