New Credo - This Week in Supply Chain Management (2 / 2012)

The new blog design seems to be accepted quite well, at least nobody complained ;-).
But there is one objective measure of site performance: Since switching to Drupal and the new design the site speed should have increased by about one third. I hope you enjoy the new site, let me know if you have any comments or suggestions!

Figure 1: The faster Content Management System and lighter Theme leads to reduced load times.

Blogs

This week have a look at these articles!

• Supply chain risks have been a high-level topic in many companies for several years now, but Maxwell Murphy argues that the catastrophes 2011 reinforced the urgency of the problem. But companies still fight for the right trade-off between cost savings and resilience. (WSJ)
• The US Pharmacopeial Convention suggested some best-practices for pharma supply chains, focussed on mitigating the risks of counterfeit drugs and medical devices. (atrisk)
• Enterra Insights posted and commented on some longer excerpts from the 2008 paper by Wagner and Bode on “An Empirical Examination of Supply Chain Risk Performance along Several Dimensions of Risk” (which I reviewed here) they reach the conclusion, that:

  The bottom line I reached from reading their study is that a company must know every aspect of its business and the environment in which it operates if it is going to make informed choices about how to deal with supply chain risks.

  (Enterra Insights)
• Ken Simpson presents a report about new concerns by the Chatham House that the just-in-time credo might put companies at risk… I can only agree with Ken: “finally!” (Contemplating)