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German Autos at risk? Perhaps not.

An empirical analysis of supply chain risk management in the German automotive industry shows that the group using reactive supply chain risk management seems to do better in terms of disruptions resilience or the reduction of the bullwhip effect, whereas the group pursuing preventive supply chain risk management seems to do better as to flexibility or safety stocks.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Sheffi's Resilient Enterprise and supply chain risk
It is unfortunate that many companies still leave risk management and business continuity to securit[...]
A new supply chain perspective: The supply chain life cycle
It is not often that I come across papers with a holistic view of the supply chain as a living and d[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management
First published in 1998 and now already in its 3rd edition in 2009, but still unknown to me, althoug[...]
Book Review: This is where raster GIS started...
...well not really, but Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling by Dana Tomlin spar[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
We are living in a new world of risk that is making this world unprecedentedly complex and challengi[...]
The supply chain of the future
Many global supply chains are not equipped to cope with the world we are entering. Most were enginee[...]
from HERE and THERE
Cutting back on road spending may not be wise
In an article today, the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet revealed that Statens Vegvesen (or the Norweg[...]
Practical Supply Chain Risk Management
Every once in while I come across articles written by leaders in the industry. that catch my attenti[...]