This Week in Supply Chain Management (16 / 2011)

This article concludes this week in supply chain management by collecting the top stories published in the last seven days.
About 100 to 150 web articles or news stories relevant for supply chain risk management are published each week. However I am amazed how many articles seem to contain valid information, but after more thorough examination proof to be filled with advertisement be it for services or conferences. After removing those, the following articles have been left.

News

• Japan’s supply chain ripple effects with comments from Y. Sheffi from the MIT (MIT News)

Blogs

• Can uninsurable risks be insured? Lockton Launches Risk Management Tool to Address Uninsurable Risks (insurancejournal.com)

Research / Studies

• Supply Chain Security Management (Jan Husdal)

In the last week I wrote about a practitioners view on supply chain risk management and how supply chain simulation can help to reduce the bullwhip effect.

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