Supply Chain Movement Q4 – Risk Special

12/21/2011 at 11:51 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

Contents 3 | Editorial: Natural risk behaviour 7 | News & Background: Segmentation proves crucial for the supply chain Big negative impact of tsunami Column by Tom van Woensel 10 | Management article: Do or die, Manage or ignore su...

Global SCALE Risk Initiative

10/21/2011 at 11:08 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

How can a company quickly and efficiently identify and visually display the weakest links in the supply chain? This is the main question of the project to automate supply chain risk displays by MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics in Boston....

The shape of infinity

07/1/2011 at 3:11 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

While innovation and sustainability have of course both been around as long as time itself, they appear to be the hottest topics in the business world at the moment. In the aftermath of the recent and unparalleled financial crisis, countless...

Visibility of complexity

07/1/2011 at 2:21 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

According to Professor David Simchi-Levi from MIT in Boston, there are six trends that are challenging current thinking on supply chain management: globalisation, the increasing cost of logistics, higher levels of risk in the chain, increasing cost...

Supply Chain Management and the Executive Agenda

11/4/2009 at 9:41 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and supply chain consultancy firm TruEconomy have launched a research community to bring together business professionals and academics to develop ideas, practical principles and critical thinking in the...