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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
Global supply chain risk management strategies
A case of mistaken identity, or so I thought, but it's not. There are in fact two separate articles,[...]
Single, sole, dual, multiple sourcing?
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Risk and resilience in maritime logistics
This week's focus are risks in the maritime supply chain and today's paper sets out a framework for [...]
The Nordic approach to Logistics and Supply Chain Management?
Is there such a thing as a typically Nordic way of thinking within the field of Supply Chain Managem[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Will Climate Change have an impact on transportation?
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Global Risk Reports
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from HERE and THERE
The IRM Risk Management Standard
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Suites - what suites?
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