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What are Logistics Clusters?

Many global supply chains benefit from the operational flexibility and distribution efficiencies provided by logistics clusters, yet we have a relatively poor understanding of these vital nodes. This lack of knowledge is even more pronounced when the broader economic benefits are considered.

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Supply Chain Risk Webinars

I do have a lecture on supply chain risk, but not in webinar style. Perhaps it’s time to reconsider.

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Sheffi’s Resilient Enterprise and supply chain risk

Building a resilient enterprise is an enterprise-wide undertaking that is about so much more than simply preparing a company for disruptions.

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Sheffi’s disruption profile

This is tell-tale illustration of what happens when supply chains are disrupted and businesses are impacted. They may, or may not, be able to bounce back to where they were before the event. The survivability of the company depends solely on the company’s resilience towards the disruption.

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Book Review: The Resilient Enterprise

Excellently written, The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage does not necessarily provide concrete solutions for your own business, but it showcases how other companies, successfully or not, handled various crisis situations.

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Supply Chain Management – Emergency Management

Readiness, Response and Recovery are four key elements in the New Zealand Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002. But how can this be related to supply chain management?

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Disaster Relief Supply Chains
While some aspects of commercial logistics and supply chain management are fully applicable for disa[...]
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: Global Supply Chain Management
The Handbook of Global Supply Chain Management is an excellent book. My interest in it stems from th[...]
Book Review: Security Risk Management - Body of Knowledge
A Wiley book rarely lets you down, and this one doesn't either. With a refreshing Australian touch, [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Resilience Index
The 2015 FM Global Resilience Index provides an annual ranking of 130 countries and territories acco[...]
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
from HERE and THERE
Point merge - the latest in aviation logistics
I've been travelling this week, which is why there haven't been any posts for a while, and on my tri[...]
Practical Supply Chain Risk Management
Every once in while I come across articles written by leaders in the industry. that catch my attenti[...]