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A-maze-ing discoveries

After only knowing about it for a day or two, I must say that I am fascinated by the Theory of Constraints and I intend to find out more about it.

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Supply chains and barcodes

Have you ever thought about how barcodes are a major factor in performance of supply chains? How can you keep track of all the items flowing through the supply chain?Using a barcode scanner and inventory control software it is easy to check where any item is at any given moment.

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Less supply chain disruptions with vendor managed inventory?

How does a traditional supply chain compare to a vendor managed inventory supply chain when it comes to performance during disruptions?

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Call for papers: S-D Logic and Supply Chain Risk
Is supply chain risk is now beginning to enter more and more areas of  supply chain thinking? It wou[...]
Mitigating Supply Chain Vulnerability
I'm a quantitative researcher, so I usually shy away from journal articles with too many equations a[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
ISCRiM 2010 Proceedings
Two weeks ago I attended the ISCRiM 2010 seminar at Loughborough University, a gathering of some of [...]
What are Logistics Clusters?
This is a guest post by Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logist[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
Supply chains have gone global. No longer are they a point-to-chain of goods flowing from a source t[...]
Global Risks 2012
Are economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization? Should we s[...]
from HERE and THERE
The ISCRiM Newsletter 2/2009
I don't know what I would do with the ISCRiM Newsletters from the International Supply Chain Risk Ma[...]
SAAB no more...
What do you when your major customer goes bust? How do you cope with finding a new business partner?[...]