Fears and Mitigation - This Week in Supply Chain Management (28 / 2011)

The first week in Bangkok is nearly over. I met a lot of interesting people and had inspiring talks about culture, supply chains and simulation. But the world did not stop moving, so I present you the highlights of the week in SCM.

News

• The Michigan State University reports the death of Donald Bowersox a pioneer supply chain researcher. I got to know him through his framework on supply chain strategies, mentioned in Analysis of Logistics Strategies from 1990 to 2008 (MSU)

Blogs

• AtRisk reports a rising fear by executives of cyber attacks. (@Risk)
• Yet another fear: husdal.com elaborates on the risks feared by Scandinavian companies, though supply chain risks are not up in the top. (husdal.com)
• I can recommend you to read the article on Logistics Viewpoints on supply chain risks and different risk types and how to manage them. (Logistics Viewpoints)

Research

• The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply hints towards a global survey on supply chain resilience. Closing date will be September, 5th. (CIPS)

Education

• Kinaxis just anounced a webinar on “Managing Uncertainty in Volatile Global Economic Times”, starts on Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 (11:00–12:00 (New York)) Caroline Dowling of Flextronics will be presenting. (Registration)

If you haven’t read my articles of this week, have a look at the following:

• Monday: How can you plan for an highly unlikely event? Planning for the Catastrophe.
• Wednesday: Analysis of the impact of different disaster types on the supply chain.