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INSTR 2010 – Call for papers

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 2:00 am
I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned this conference on my blog before., because the call has been out for while already. The 4th International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliabili...
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Remote Logistics

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 8:00 pm
Yesterday I was talking about emergency logistics, today it is remote logistics. The other day I came across a very interesting post on Logistics Planning for Projects in Remote environments, a post t...
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Emergency Logistics

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 10:40 pm
Can commercial logistics’ ideas and solutions work in humanitarian supply chains? No. Why? Well, perhaps they could work, but in most cases they won’t, simply because there is a profound l...
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Risk Management in Global Supply Chain Networks

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 12:00 am
Supply Chain Risks can be classified as either one of these three, Deviation, Disruption or Disaster, and can be approached using either a Preventive or an Interceptive approach; the former attempts t...
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Book Review:Managing Risks in Supply Chains

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 8:55 am
To make up for yesterday’s critique, this is a full and proper review. This book has been out for a while, but I didn’t discover it until recently, and now my library finally bought a copy...
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Editorial carelessness?

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 7:50 am
If Friday postings are meant to be more casual postings and personal rants, this post most certainly falls into that category. Yesterday I sat down to prepare a review of this book, Managing Risks in ...
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Supply Chain Risk 2009

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 8:00 am
Supply Chain Risk? Supply Chain Risk – The dark side of supply chain management. That was the title of a guest lecture I gave at Molde University College last year. This year I was asked to do ...
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Mitigating supply chain disruptions is easy

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 1:29 pm
How could I have missed this paper? I was preparing my 2009-lecture on supply chain risk for tomorrow and while looking for some YouTube videos on supply chain risk to spice up my 3-hour presentation,...
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Supply, Demand, and … "Miscellanous" Risk?

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 15, 2009, 5:01 pm
I’ve said so before, sometimes new articles are found in new and unlikely places. The other day I was proofreading the paper of a colleague and something caught my attention in her reference lis...
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The Box is back!

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 6:27 am
Finally, the BBC Box has returned home, as I was made aware of from a post on @risk the other day. I had near forgotten about this project. A year ago I made a post on the BBC project “The Box&#...
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The Kinaxis Blog

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 5:01 pm
I said in my post on Bob Ferrari’s blog Supply Chain Matters that I was going to resurrect my previous habit of presenting and reviewing supply chain risk blogs. A promise is a promise, so here ...
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Book Review: Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 10, 2009, 5:01 pm
Another book by someone from the ISCRIM gang? No, not this time, or perhaps, yes, after all. Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability: Tools and Methods for Supply Chain Decision Makers by Teresa...
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Book Review: Single Point of Failure

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 4:30 am
Just out a few days ago, Single Point of Failure is a fascinating read. The author, Gary S. Lynch, is Global Leader, Supply Chain Risk Management Practice at Marsh Consulting, so he knows what he is t...
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Risk and Uncertainty in Supply Chain Management

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 8, 2009, 3:51 am
I’ve searched and scoured numerous academic journals in order to find literature I can use for this blog. Sometimes my readers help me and suggest articles I am not yet aware of, and sometimes I...
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Critical: Beer Distribution

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 2:58 am
I’m not in the habit of making Friday a day for funny blog posts, but today’s article highlights a very interesting issue: Beer distribution is a sector that will be highly affected by a s...
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Black Swan Events

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 1:20 am
Black Swan events – should we even bother? The October issue of the Harvard Business Review had a special spotlight on risk, and featured an article by Nassim M Taleb, Daniel G Goldstein and Mar...
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Graph Theory to the rescue

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 2:29 am
Graph Theory. In Supply Chain Management? It’s probably 10 years ago since last time I looked at Graph Theory. That was when I was writing my thesis for my MSc in GIS on Network Analysis in Rast...
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Supply Chain Flexibility in Strategic Networks

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 2:55 am
A supply chain as a virtual enterprise network. That is the underlying reasoning in the 2009 paper How to improve supply chain flexibility using strategic supply chain networks by Herwig Winkler. Virt...
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Rigorous Risk Management

Jan H. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 5:01 pm
As a global management consulting firm, A.T. Kearney is focusing on strategic and operational CEO-agenda concerns, and leading startegists at AT Kearney often have articles appearing in Supply Chain ...
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Supply Chain Risk – Jetzt auch auf Deutsch

Jan H. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 6:18 pm
Unbeknown to me – or perhaps I really should have known better – there appears to be a large body of supply chain risk research written in German, as I just recently discovered. Lucky for ...
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Supply chain risk in turbulent environments

Jan H. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 12:34 am
An intriguing title caught my eye today.  Supply chain risk in turbulent environments – A conceptual model for managing supply chain network risk by Peter Trkman and Kevin Mc Cormack. This is t...
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Supply Chain Matters

Jan H. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 3:09 am
Today I am resurrecting a long neglected task, my review of selected blogs and websites that deal with supply chain risk and related issues. It is almost a year since last time a blog was added here, ...
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A conceptual model of Supply Chain Flexibility

Jan H. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 6:01 pm
What do you do when you find two research papers by the same three authors, published the same year, in two different journals, with almost the same title?  A conceptual model of supply chain flexib...
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Transportation Lifelines and Critical Infrastructure

Jan H. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2009, 5:01 pm
This is the first paper that sparked my research interest in transportation vulnerability, and what would later become the focus area of my research: the cost of transportation vulnerability and the b...
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Transportation Hazards

Jan H. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 5:37 am
This is an updated and extended review of  the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz (editor) which I have reviewed in a previous post 4 years ago:  Book Review: The Handbook of Tranpo...
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Humanitarian and military supply chains must work side-by side

Jan H. posted an article on - Oct 1, 2009, 11:33 am
The recent earthquakes in Samoa in the Pacific and in Padang in Indonesia is a poignant reminder for three chapters in my most recent book review, Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment by John Gattorna. In t...
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Supply chain agility – Risk mitigation and response

Jan H. posted an article on - Sep 27, 2009, 5:01 pm
How does company culture shape a firm’s risk mitigation and response, and thus, how does company culture shape a firm’s supply chain agility? That is the research question asked by Michael...
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Bad locations = bad logistics?

Jan H. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 2:09 am
How are companies located in sparse transport networks affected by supply chain disruptions? This article develops a new framework for the categorization of supply chains, and introduces the notion of...
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Is Sheffi's Resilient Enterprise the answer to supply chain risk?

Jan H. posted an article on - Sep 13, 2009, 5:02 pm
It is unfortunate that many companies still leave risk management and business continuity to security professionals, business continuity planners or insurance professionals. So say Yossi Sheffi and Ja...
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Is Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment the way of the future?

Jan H. posted an article on - Sep 6, 2009, 5:01 pm
Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment. That is the magic formula that runs like a red thread through John Gattorna’s latest book, where he demonstrates how there are four types of supply chains, based ...
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What's so special about this Paul Kleindorfer?

Jan H. posted an article on - Aug 30, 2009, 5:01 pm
... authors to write a whole article about him? LP-HC not HP-LC My first encounter with Paul Kleindorfer was Kleindorfer, P. R. ... made the main strand of my research, i.e. hp-lc, have absolutel...
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Catastrophic events in supply chains

Jan H. posted an article on - Aug 24, 2009, 3:59 pm
After studying supply chain risk research for some time I have begun to realize that  much of the supply chain risk literature lacks direction and that each researcher or strand of researchers have t...
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Risk management: core competence?

Jan H. posted an article on - Aug 16, 2009, 5:01 pm
Is risk management overlooked as an important source of competitive advantage? That is the question sought answered by Donald Lessard and Rafael Lucea in their recent paper on Embracing risk as a core...
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A future framework for measuring supply chain risk management and performance

Jan H. posted an article on - Aug 10, 2009, 4:08 am
Today’s article is a continuation (or should it rightfully have been the precursor?) of an article I presented two weeks ago. Supply chain risk management and performance: A guiding framework fo...
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Supply Chain Risk Management in six steps

Jan H. posted an article on - Aug 3, 2009, 5:51 am

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Corporate vulnerability

Jan H. posted an article on - Jul 23, 2009, 5:01 pm

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Hard Drive Recovery and Business Continuity

Jan H. posted an article on - Jul 19, 2009, 7:05 am

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A note to my readers

Jan H. posted an article on - Jul 14, 2009, 6:36 am

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