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3PL – a risk orchestrator?

Historically, third-party logistics providers, or 3PLs, provided traditional logistics services, such as transportation and warehouse management, and nothing more than that, but 3PLs have evolved to becoming orchestrators of supply chains that create and sustain a competitive advantage.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply Chain Management - does it really exist?
The other day I came across a very interesting PhD dissertation by Erik Sandberg from Linköping Univ[...]
Managing risk in global supply chains
The book Strategies for Building Successful Global Businesses, by the INSEAD-Wharton Alliance on Glo[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Political Risk
Egypt is in crisis. After Tunisia, now Egypt is rocked by a popular uprising, and the outcome of the[...]
Book review: Cost-Benefit Analysis: Theory and Application
I really enjoyed reading Cost-Benefit Analysis: Theory and Application by Tefvik Nas.  I used this b[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The Benefits of Investing in Supply Chain Security
With the memory of attacks by Somali pirates still fresh in mind, supply chain security has come to [...]
Global Risk Reports
While waiting for the World Economic Forum Global Risk Report for 2009, the continuation of the Glob[...]
from HERE and THERE
The art of reviewing journal submissions
transportation science journal
The other day I received an email from the editorial board of Transportation Science, asking me to r[...]
Volcanic ash cloud - really a surprise?
Last week a volcanic eruption on Iceland took Europe's civil aviation authorities by total surprise,[...]