Rebound and Conferences - This Week in Supply Chain Management (26 / 2011)

Welcome back to my regular TWi SCM post. This was the last week in June, and thus halftime for the year and still plenty of time to achieve the goals for 2011.

News

• Good news are seldom in the news: several sources report that Japan’s supply chain should be back on track now or at the latest by Q3.

Blogs

• I also stumbled upon an interesting blog: riskcontainment.com (thanks to this blog review)
• Ken Simpson blogs from the Insights 2011 Conference (Contemplating…)
• Kathleen Ellis writes about the vulnerability of supply chains and what to do about it, with key points on the necessary actions to prevent disruptions from making too much damage (Insurance Journal)
• Yet another blog article on a conference, here the first IHS Global Design and Supply Chain Summit with insights from iSupply (ElectroIQ)

Research

• This week you can read about the “Past, Present and Future of SCM” (Jan Husdal)
• If you want to learn more about fuzzy decision making and supply chain risk management (which I already mentioned in this article) you can download a current study on A Combined Fuzzy Decision Making Approach to Supply Chain Risk Assessment (CiteSeerX)

I really had a great week, although my work output was similar to this:

“Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Cham (www.phdcomics.com)

Enjoy your weekend!