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Logistics risks – the new science?

This paper presents the five cornerstones of logistics as an academic discipline, and shows how logistics in fact can act as an integrative platform over a wide range of different issues at the micro meso and macro level.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Shippers, carriers and disruptions
Both shippers and motor carriers are impacted by travel time variability, but they react differently[...]
Supply Chain Risk Management in six steps
Supply management is not just about acquiring goods and services at the best possible price. It's al[...]
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[...]
Business Continuity in Global Supply Chains
Business Continuity is a crucial ingredient of supply chain management. At the same time, implementi[...]
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[...]
A Decade of Living Dangerously
Do you remember the movie The Year of Living Dangerously with Mel Gibson? Topically unrelated maybe,[...]
from HERE and THERE
The reliability and vulnerability of transportation lifelines
How can we assess how reliable or vulnerable the transportation is, and which parameters can we appl[...]
Today's transport disruption: volcanoes
I haven't had a "In the news" post for quite some time, but now Norway and much of Northern Europe a[...]