Supply Chain Risks in Practice and Research Gaps - This Week in Supply Chain Management (40 / 2011)

As every Friday I enjoy reading into some of this weeks news. I am back from my vacation so I read a little more again this week. My favorite reads were the KPMG study and Jan Husdal’s article on research gaps.

News

• Toyota finally recovered from the March earthquake, two month earlier then expected before. (Japan Times)

Blogs

• The S. P. Jain Center of Management has a nice article on corporate “Survival strategies under uncertainty” by Rajiv Aserkar a Supply Chain Professor there. (S. P. Jain Center of Management Blog)
• The Supply Chain Standard and @risk summarize a study by KPMG on global manufacturing, concluding that manufacturers are heavily investing in supply chain risk management to cover uncertainty. (Supply Chain Standard , atrisk)

Research

• Jan Husdal has a closer look at research gaps in supply chain risk management. (husdal.com)

If you haven’t had the time also have a look at this weeks articles here on the blog.

• Monday was all about theory and the history of how risk came into supply chain management with Diversification under Yield Randomness in Inventory Models.
• Wednesday had a look a suggestion how to evaluate the supply chain strategy in a company with An Approach to evaluate a Firm’s Supply Chain Strategy as a Conceptual System.

Have a nice weekend!