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Supply Chain Nirvana

The supply chain is a firm’s core asset, and perhaps its most important asset, and a firm is only as good or as bad as its supply chain. In this tightly packed 300-page volume Sehgal shows how important it is to have a top-down-driven approach to supply chain management and how important it is to link strategy and execution, from the board room to the very last delivery guy.

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Book Review: Enterprise SCM

What we have here is a book that fully covers the complete setup of a supply chain from A to Z, with nothing left out, and while strategic considerations are not explicitly mentioned, implicitly they are taken care of.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Lean + Agile = LeAgile: a happy marriage?
Opposites attract and in the supply chain world, "lean" and "agile" appear to be opposites. Both man[...]
Risk Analysis of Critical Infrastructures
The vulnerability of critical infrastructures is a recurring theme on this blog, and today's article[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: Networks and Algorithms
If you are into network analysis of any kind, this book teaches you the basics. As the name implies,[...]
Book Review: The Geography of Transport Systems
This is a book I've wanted to lay my hands on for a long time. The Geography of Transport Systems by[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2008 - A prediction come true
In my post on Hyper-optimization and supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk? I highlig[...]
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
Oslo airport shut-down...lessons learned?
Two days ago, Norway's major airport, Oslo Gardermoen (OSL) practically shut down due to weather con[...]
Secure Supply Chain Collaboration
Slightly outside the scope of this blog, which deals more with the management side of supply chain r[...]