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Book Review:Managing Risks in Supply Chains

The book is a collection of excellent articles by various researchers in supply chain risk from mostly Germany and Austria. To make up for yesterday’s perhaps overly harsh critique of just one article from this book, this is a full and proper content review.

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One bad apple…

Should an editor care? I believe he should. The editor of this book doesn’t, I simply cannot avoid saying it, and I will explain why. While many of the articles/chapters maintain an excellent academic standard, one of the chapters does not at all hold up to any standard. In fact, it is so bad it makes me wonder how this could have slipped by editorial control?

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Identification and simulation of risks in supply networks

The graphical model uses a Bayesian Network to determine the accumulated probability of failure in supply networks. The Bayesian network captures common causal relations of risk events in a supply chain. It is not complete and is not constructed by a proper risk assessment of a special company.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Robustness, resilience, flexibility and agility
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Supply Risk Management: just common sense?
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Supply Chain Risk - Jetzt auch auf Deutsch
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Book Review: Operations Rules
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
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Zycus and the Supply Risk Explosion
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from HERE and THERE
1st Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar
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Norwegian roads are slooooow...
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