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Security, visibility and resilience

The numerous possibilities of disruptions and disturbances in the supply chain demand a supply chain that is responsive to a variety of threats, and the keys or tools to mitigating supply chain vulnerability are security, visibility and resilience.

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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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Supply Chain Confidence

Traditionally, papers on supply chain risk use the “classic” supply-demand-internal-external scheme for classifying supply supply chain risk sources. Christopher and Lee do not. They see risk as primarily related to uncertainty, volatility and turbulence

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The supply chain of the future

Instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. That is IBM’s vision of the supply chain of the future. The report features an interesting table, where these three characteristics are linked to SCM competencies and how they can be implemented.

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Business Intelligence – a key element in Supply Chain Risk Management

In my postings on supply chain risk and supply chain disruption, there is one thing that I have overlooked: Business Intelligence. Well, not overlooked, maybe, but underestimated, because Business Intelligence is a key component in mitigating supply chain risk and also a key component in recovering critical information after a supply chain disruption.

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Supply Chain Visibility through Web Conferencing

It’s weekend and time for some reflections. Maybe slightly off-topic for this blog, but the other day I came across “Web Conferencing”, a feature-rich full web collaboration service, and it occurred to me how useful this tool is in Supply Chain Management.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Managing Disruption Risks in the Supply Chain - the DRISC model
It is not often that I find a PhD dissertation that is excellently written and a joy to read, keepin[...]
Risks and supply chains... stochastically speaking2
A word of warning: This is not your typical journal article on supply chain risk. Risks and supply c[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Business Continuity in Global Supply Chains
Business Continuity is a crucial ingredient of supply chain management. At the same time, implementi[...]
Book Review: Heads in the sand
Finally, after 5 days of volcanic ash cloud posting, I can return to my regular topics of supply cha[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2012
Are economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization? Should we s[...]
Assess the vulnerability of your production system
So far I have reviewed "international" literature and web sites, and it is only fitting that now it [...]
from HERE and THERE
Supply Chain Risk Management Survey
Effective Supply Chain Risk Management has become one of the key ways of securing competitive advant[...]
Humanitarian and military supply chains side-by side
The recent earthquakes in Samoa in the Pacific and in Padang in Indonesia are a poignant reminder fo[...]