This Week in Supply Chain Management (20 / 2011)

This was week 20 in 2011, enjoy your weekend!

News

• Elina Rääsk (Corporate Responsibility Manager, Global Procurement with Nokia Siemens Networks) talks about Supply Chain Management in this clip on Youtube.

Blogs

• If Trade Compliance is an issue for you have a look at the WTG webinar on “Global Risk and Compliance” (via husdal.com)

• Ken Simpson summarized some learnings from the NY Times article on GM and the Japanese Quake, which I mentioned here last week.

• The Operational Risk Blog rationalized the claim that supply chain risk gains more importance nowadays in companies, as SC risk may be also be a threat to national security.

Surveys

• A survey by the consulting company Marsh is all over the internet this week, with the result that managers want better integration of risk management, Supply-Chain Resilience Worries Risk Managers and further best practices. Here is the full text (if only anybody would take real research as serious as a consulting case studies).

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If you need a laugh today, have a look at PHD Comics and check if it is really necessary to inform your boss about your upcoming vacation…

This week I talked about two articles

• Monday: Categorization of Supply Chain Risk and Risk Management
• Wednesday a little bit more technical on: Monte Carlo Simulation to improve Network Resilience