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Single, sole, dual, multiple sourcing?

This paper examines the costs and benefits of single versus multiple sourcing strategies, dependent on probability and consequences of supply disruption, vendor price escalation, inventory and schedule issues, technology access and quality control.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Risk Management: Contingent versus Mitigative
The risk management literature separates between mitigative actions or strategies and contingent act[...]
Security, visibility and resilience
The numerous possibilities of disruptions and disturbances in the supply chain demand a supply chain[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Risk Management in Global Supply Chain Networks
Supply Chain Risks can be classified as either one of these three, Deviation, Disruption or Disaster[...]
Organizing Resilience
Resilience. A word that his been in the media perhaps more than ever before these days. I am of cour[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Engineering transportation lifelines
New Zealand is probably not the fist country that comes to mind when thinking of state-of-the-art tr[...]
Stemming the rising tide
Are you are taking radically different actions than your peers when it comes to supply chain risk ma[...]
from HERE and THERE
ERP consultants: A nightmare
Kinaxis Suitemates
I'm an academic ... a transport economist who happened to stumble into supply chain management. Actu[...]
Migrants and European supply chains
Truckers caught up in Europe's migrant crisis say business is increasingly disrupted by queues and s[...]