Tag Archives: supply chain structure

Overcoming locational disadvantage

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Revised on: 2011-08-08

Following up my previous post, Sparse transportation networks – a recipe for supply chain disruptions?, when it comes to a business’ physical location in relation to the functioning of the supply chain, obviously there are good locations and bad locations. Can a business’ organization compensate for that? Yes – by either structuring its supply chain or honing its organization, thus going from badly located to well located and from badly prepared to well prepared.

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Supply Chain Disruptions – Does location matter?

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Revised on: 2011-01-06

In regions or countries with sparse transportation networks or few transportation mode choices the structure or design of the supply chain, along with the organization and preparedness become important factors in determining if a company has an favorable or a unfavorable location. In locations with a sparse transportation network there are maybe not so many options as to setting up the supply chain; the supply chain is in fact constrained by a certain physical location. Does this make it more susceptible to disruptions?

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How to Design Mitigation Capabilities

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Revised on: 2015-09-26

There hasn’t been a literature review on this blog for a while, so it’s time to pick up where I left. Jumping from 1997 in review of Asbjørnslett’s “Assess the vulnerability of your production system” to 2007 in today’s review, I can tell that supply chain research has made a big leap forward. Today’s article presents six propositions that relate the severity of supply chain disruptions to supply chain design characteristics and supply chain mitigation capabilities, illustrating the connections between supply chain risk, vulnerability, resilience, and business continuity planning.

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