http://scrmblog.dumke.me/taxonomy/term/625/all en http://scrmblog.dumke.me/content/year-of-renewal-this-week-in-supply-chain-management-1-2012 <div class="field field-name-field-picture field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://scrmblog.dumke.me/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/default_images/NewsIcon.jpg?itok=2X-4GZfB" width="80" height="80" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Welcome to the &#8220;Year of Renewal&#8221;.<br /> The first week in 2012 is nearly over and I restarted writing on my chapter on supply chain risk management from a practitioner&#8217;s perspective. Hopefully finishing by the end of the month.</p> <h5>Year of Renewal</h5> <p>2012 is my year of renewal and I just started with a new website design. I do not think it needs a lot of explanation, so I just used <a href="http://skitch.com/" title="Skitch">Skitch</a> to create a <a href="http://scrmblog.dumke.me/sites/default/files/images/NewSCRMBlogExplained.jpg" title="SCRM Blog">graphical howto</a>.</p> <p>There are still some things not as I&#8217;d like them to be. This morning I had to make some fixes for those who still use the Internet Explorer with versions below 8. It is still not perfect, but I will continue to work on some aspects anyway.</p> <h5>News</h5> <p>There weren&#8217;t many news during the last days, but I found two articles with some new thoughts on 2011&#8217;s hot topics.</p> <ul> <li>The Bangkok Post summarizes the local issues during the flooding. The Thai Industry Association summarizes the situation as follows: &#8220;The private sector has no clue how to react when a devastating natural disaster occurs&#8221;. Thereby, highlighting the massive failure to account for the regional risk structure by many global companies. (<a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/273904/keeping-supply-chains-rolling" title="Bangkok Post: Keeping supply chains rolling">Bangkok Post</a>)</li> <li>Boing is finally conducting a more in depth analysis of their supply chain to find sources for the long delays of its new 787 Dreamliner. (<a href="http://www.strategicsourceror.com/2011/12/boeings-supply-chain-overhaul.html" title="Strategic Sourceror: Boeing&#39;s Supply Chain Overhaul">Strategic Sourceror</a>)</li> </ul> <h5>Blogs</h5> <p>Bloggers never sleep. And I would like to highlight the following articles:</p> <ul> <li>Jan Husdal concluded 2011 with some nice <a href="http://www.husdal.com/2011/12/31/2011-another-blogging-year/" title="husdal.com: 2011 - another blogging year">statistics</a>. The last article from 2011 was about the &#8220;Estimation of disruption risk exposure&#8221;, with &#8220;the most complete estimation of disruption risks&#8221; available. (<a href="http://www.husdal.com/2011/12/29/estimation-of-disruption-risk-exposure/" title="husdal.com: Estimation of disruption risk exposure">Jan Husdal</a>)</li> <li>@risk also published two interesting articles during the two weeks. First, on a study that Japanese companies are shifting their sourcing focus to other countries, due to high local risks. Second, the US Department of Energy (<span class="caps">DOE</span>) released his second &#8220;Critical Materials Strategy&#8221; report, forecasting a decreasing long term risk in supply disruptions. (<a href="http://atrisk.net/japanese-high-tech-companies-shifting-supply-sourcing-from-domestic-to-other-asian-countries/;" title="atrisk: Japanese High-Tech Companies Shifting Supply Sourcing From Domestic to Other Asian Countries">Japan</a> <a href="http://atrisk.net/doe-releases-2011-critical-materials-strategy-as-china-limits-exports-of-rare-earth-elements/" title="atrisk: DOE Releases 2011 Critical Materials Strategy as China Limits Exports of Rare Earth Elements">Critical Materials</a>)</li> <li>There are many projections out there for 2012 I found the &#8220;red herrings&#8221; at the Risk Management Monitor very entertaining. Also click the linked list with the full listing as well. (<a href="http://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/the-biggest-geopolitical-risks-of-2012/" title="RMM: The Biggest Geopolitical Risks of 2012"><span class="caps">RMM</span></a>)</li> </ul> <h5>Learning and research </h5> <ul> <li><span class="caps">SCM</span> Operations reviews an online supply chain management which is offered by the University of San Francisco. (<a href="http://www.scm-operations.com/2011/12/review-of-online-supply-chain.html" title="SCM Operations: The Review of Online Supply Chain Management Course from University of San Francisco"><span class="caps">SCM</span> Operations</a>)</li> <li>Already published in 2009 but still interesting: The Big Picture published an (video) interview with Robert Shiller (Yale Professor) on evaluating risk. (<a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/yale-economist-robert-shiller-on-evaluating-risk/" title="TBP: Yale economist Robert Shiller on evaluating risk">The Big Picture</a>)</li> </ul></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags-review field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/news" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">news</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/twi" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">twi</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/year-of-renewal" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">year of renewal</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/thailand" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">thailand</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/risks" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">risks</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-news-user-rating field-type-fivestar field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><form class="fivestar-widget" action="/taxonomy/term/625/all/feed" method="post" id="fivestar-custom-widget" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><div class="clearfix fivestar-smart-stars fivestar-average-stars fivestar-form-item fivestar-outline"><div class="form-item form-type-fivestar form-item-vote"> <div class="form-item form-type-select form-item-vote"> <select id="edit-vote--2" name="vote" class="form-select"><option value="-">Select rating</option><option value="20">Give Year of Renewal - This Week in Supply Chain Management (1 / 2012) 1/5</option><option value="40">Give Year of Renewal - This Week in Supply Chain Management (1 / 2012) 2/5</option><option value="60" selected="selected">Give Year of Renewal - This Week in Supply Chain Management (1 / 2012) 3/5</option><option value="80">Give Year of Renewal - This Week in Supply Chain Management (1 / 2012) 4/5</option><option value="100">Give Year of Renewal - This Week in Supply Chain Management (1 / 2012) 5/5</option></select> </div> <div class="description">Rating of news Items</div> </div> </div><input class="fivestar-submit form-submit" type="submit" id="edit-fivestar-submit" name="op" value="Rate" /><input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-OM0oovNphv9J_3e4OhiPjz8NlToFIDr3SaN-78a0T1Y" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="fivestar_custom_widget" /> </div></form></div></div></div> Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:29:59 +0000 Daniel Dumke 1758 at http://scrmblog.dumke.me