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Future Value Chain Trends 2020

The twelve future trends that will shape value chains and supply chain management during this decade. Are you ready for the 12 global root trends that address change in society, shopper behavior, environment and technology? Above all, sustainability is the new buzzword.

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Sustainable supply chains

Sustainability has become a huge buzzword, both in today’s business world and within the broader facets of society. Sustainability has evolved from a perspective and investigation of standalone research in social and environmental areas, through a corporate social responsibility perspective, and towards a convergence of perspectives of sustainability as the triple bottom line.

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Less cost and less disruptions?

If you know that your shipment will arrive late, you are perhaps less concerned with not being just in time? 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?

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Fragility and sustainability: emerging research areas?

Should short-term loss-minimization and short-term profit maximization really be the driving force behind supply chain risk management?

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Sustainable Manufacturing Summit Europe

Soaring fuel prices combined with increasing awareness of the need to adapt for a low-carbon future has brought sustainability to the forefront of every manufacturer’s agenda. How can regulators and manufacturers integrate sustainability in to industrial policy and practice?

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Sustainability means less vulnerability?

A sustainable supply chain is a supply chain where resources are not just consumed but also replenished, and where business decisions consider long-term overall environmental and societal impacts.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Transport Network Disruption
Today is my last day at work as Researcher at Møreforsking Molde. It is a sad day, because I am leav[...]
SCM: Past, Present and Future
What has been achieved, or rather: written, during a decade of academic research in the Supply Chain[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Supply Chain Risk Management
This excellent book by Donald Waters, Supply Chain Risk Management: Vulnerability and Resilience in [...]
Risk Management Simplified
Risk management. Why make it difficult when you can make it easy? That is perhaps what Andy Osborne [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Calculating the Value-at-Risk
Some of you may remember that I posted about the SCOR Framework for Supply Chain Risk Management ear[...]
28 Global Risks in 2015
The  World Economic Forum Global Risks Reports. I first came across them in 2008, when the hyperopti[...]
from HERE and THERE
Less cost and less disruptions?
One of the regular readers of my blog alerted me to an article in the NY Times titled Slow Trip Acro[...]
Identification and simulation of risks in supply networks
The other day I got an email from Jan Bertrand, a Master student at the University of Technology Ham[...]