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The resilient enterprise : overcoming vulnerability for competitive advantage /
"What happens when fire strikes the manufacturing plant of the sole supplier for the brake pressure value used in every Toyota? When an earthquake in Taiwan shuts down chip manufacturers for Deli and Apple? When the U.S. Pacific ports are shut down during the Christmas rush? When terrorists str...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[2005]
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; I When Things Go Wrong; 1 Big Lessons from Small Disruptions; 2 Understanding Vulnerability; 3 Anticipating Disruptions and Assessing Their Likelihood; 4 Effects of Disruptions; II Supply Chain Management-A Primer; 5 Basic Supply Chain Management; 6 Demand-Responsive Supply Chains; III Reducing Vulnerability; 7 Reducing the Likelihood of Intentional Disruptions; 8 Collaboration for Security; 9 Detecting Disruptions; 10 Resilience through Redundancy; IV Building in Flexibility; 11 Flexibility through Interchangeability; 12 Postponement for Flexibility.
- 13 Strategies for Flexible Supply14 Customer Relations Management; 15 Building a Culture of Flexibility; V Resilience for Competitive Advantage; 16 Moving Ahead; Notes; Index.