Back in March 2011, supply chain professionals were just beginning to grapple with the effects of the devastating earthquake/tsunami combination that struck Japan. One thing was clear, however, sectors that were going

In Part 1 of this two-part series, I discussed the first five highlights from an Economist Intelligence Unit report entitled Ascending the maturity curve: Effective management of enterprise risk and compliance. It

I was recently contacted by Annabel Symington, Deputy Editor of Business Research for The Economist Intelligence Unit. She thought I might be interested in a new EIU report that “examines how companies

Before jumping into today’s topic, I hope you will pardon a little horn-blowing. I was recently contacted by Tracy Myers of PMPCertificationTraining.org and told that this blog had made the group’s list

As the Japanese begin to rebuild areas devastated by earthquakes and the tsunami, supply chain analysts continue to examine the consequences of supply chain disruptions that resulted from those devastating events. For

This is the final post in a four-part series on supply chain risk management. In this post, I’d like to discuss some hedging strategies and techniques offered by Bill McBeath from ChainLink

This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on supply chain risk management. In Part 1 of the series, I discussed the fact that many companies are overconfident in their ability to

In Part 1 of this series on supply chain risk management, I discussed the fact that a number of supply chain analysts believe that the business sector doesn’t walk the talk when