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The causes of logistics uncertainty

Logistics uncertainty – a new research strand in supply chain risk research? The logistics uncertainty pyramid is further explored in this paper. The Logistics Uncertainty Pyramid Model is an excellent tool that can be used to identify issues of uncertainty, and then map these issues against their sources, from which improvements plans can be developed.

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Shrink Shrank Shrunk

This is one of the articles – if not THE article – that paved the way for many frameworks for risks in supply chains, most notably the supply-demand-process-control model.

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Transportation – the forgotten staple

Transportation is a staple ingredient in supply chains and uncertainty is a staple ingredient in risk assessments, and consequently, transportation uncertainty is a staple ingredient in supply chain risks.

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Risk and Uncertainty in Supply Chain Management

I am very much impressed with this extensive literature study on risk and uncertainty within Supply Chain Management. It is – by my judgement – better than Vanany et al. (2009).

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply chain vulnerability: Mitigation strategies
A new outlet for articles on supply chain vulnerability? Perhaps. And actually, it's not that new, s[...]
Vulnerability in business relationships
Today's journal article review is an article by professor Göran Svensson from Halmstad University in[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Resilience times four
Resilience. It is not so much about reducing the number of things that go wrong, but it is about imp[...]
Book Review: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
This book, The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measur[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
In our interconnected world, safety, reliability and efficiency can only be secured through collabor[...]
Analysing road vulnerability in Norway
How does the Norwegian Public Roads Administration NRPA assess the vulnerability of the Norwegian ro[...]
from HERE and THERE
The effects of brand reputation on supply chain risk
The financial crisis has left the world in turmoil. Slowly but surely, the effects of one bankruptcy[...]
Norwegian roads are dangerous!
rv70 Oppdølstranda
I just learned from the news this evening, while writing on a rather dull post for this blog, that a[...]