Tag Archives: supply chain sustainability

Less cost and less disruptions?

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Revised on: 2015-11-07

One of the regular readers of my blog alerted me to an article in the NY Times titled Slow Trip Across Sea Aids Profit and Environment. As it turns out the Danish shipping giant Maersk has halved its top cruising speed over the last two years, thus cutting fuel costs, cutting emissions and perhaps cutting disruptions costs, too? After all, if you know that your shipment will arrive late, you are perhaps less concerned with not being just in time?

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Fragility and sustainability: emerging research areas?

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Revised on: 2015-09-12

Should short-term loss-minimization and short-term profit maximization really be the driving force behind supply chain risk management? In their 2009 article Weak links in the supply chain: measuring fragility and sustainability, Peter Stonebraker, Joel Goldhar and George Nassos point at a emerging area of supply chain research: fragility and sustainability, and they develop a framework for understanding and measuring it. Conceptually intriguing, the paper weaves together corporate responsibility, supply chain disruptions and long-term supply chain sustainability in a holistic picture going far beyond much of the loss-oriented supply chain risk literature of  recent years.

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