Jan Husdal

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  • April 15, 2010
  • 06:01 PM
  • 2,334 views

Not all risk is risk

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

The article lists and discusses eight risk definitions, and then suggests an alternative and comprehensive definition that captures all aspects of [ ... ]... Read more »

  • December 3, 2009
  • 06:01 PM
  • 1,450 views

Risk & Vulnerability

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Written 12 years ago, but still holds true. Supply chains are increasingly becoming complex systems of webs and networks and the system thinking that already pervaded Einarsson and Rausand (1997) An Approach to Vulnerability Analysis of Complex Industrial Systems is today still applicable to toady's supply chains. In fact, there is little difference between vulnerability in supply chains and vulnerability in complex industrial systems.... Read more »

  • April 25, 2004
  • 12:05 AM
  • 1,415 views

Why reliability and vulnerability should be an issue in road development projects

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Few will question that the sender, the recipient, the freight hauler or society in general, experience additional costs when goods or persons cannot reach their destinations in time or space.Why then, is the reliability, or conversely, the vulnerability, of the transportation network not a matter of evaluation in traditional cost-benefit analyses?... Read more »

  • April 12, 2010
  • 06:04 PM
  • 1,409 views

Supply chain vulnerability: A list of mitigation strategies

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Which mitigation strategy that works best when faced with which supply chain catastrophe? This is a paper that every supply chain manager should read, at least [ ... ]... Read more »

  • December 15, 2009
  • 12:42 AM
  • 1,378 views

Risk and vulnerability in maritime supply chains

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

This week’s focus are risks in the maritime supply chain. Today’s article reflects on security in maritime supply chains: Assurance of security in maritime supply chains: Conceptual issues of vulnerability and crisis management by Paul Barnes and Richard Oloruntoba from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, suggests that the complex interaction of ports, [ ... ]... Read more »

  • May 16, 2006
  • 12:05 AM
  • 1,323 views

Transport Network Vulnerability – which metrics should we use?

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Transport network vulnerability is a relatively new field of research and to this date no commonly agreed definition or quantifiable expression of what vulnerability is exists within the academic community.... Read more »

JENELIUS, E., PETERSEN, T., & MATTSSON, L. (2006) Importance and exposure in road network vulnerability analysis. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 40(7), 537-560. DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2005.11.003  

  • April 25, 2001
  • 12:05 AM
  • 1,303 views

Corridor Analysis – A timeline of evolutionary development

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Locating a right-of-way for a linear facility such as a pipeline, a transmission line, a railway or a roadway can be a complex problem. Before computers invaded the field of spatial analysis, McHarg (1967) wrote one of the pioneering articles in corridor analysis. ... Read more »

Collischonn, W., & Pilar, J. (2000) A direction dependent least-cost-path algorithm for roads and canals. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 14(4), 397-406. DOI: 10.1080/13658810050024304  

Cova, T., & Goodchild, M. (2002) Extending geographical representation to include fields of spatial objects. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 16(6), 509-532. DOI: 10.1080/13658810210137040  

DOUGLAS, D. (1994) Least-cost Path in GIS Using an Accumulated Cost Surface and Slopelines. Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 31(3), 37-51. DOI: 10.3138/D327-0323-2JUT-016M  

Huber, D., & Church, R. (1985) Transmission Corridor Location Modeling. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 111(2), 114. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(1985)111:2(114)  

  • June 9, 2009
  • 01:57 AM
  • 1,247 views

What kind of Supplychainist are you?

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Supply Chain Management (SCM) has evolved into both a professional and an academic field that is growing, spreading and developing offshoots in all directions. But what is SCM really, is it just a new name for logistics or is it possible to distinguish certain perspectives? And what is the difference between the Tradionalist, the Unionist, the Re-Labelist, and the Intersectionist? ... Read more »

  • April 25, 2002
  • 12:05 AM
  • 1,234 views

The reliability and vulnerability of transportation lifelines

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

How can we assess how reliable or vulnerable the transportation is, and which parameters can we apply in measuring reliability and vulnerability? Transportation networks like freeways and interstate highways are the main backbone of modern society, and this research essay takes a closer look at vulnerability and reliability issues in transportation networks.... Read more »

Dalziell, E., & Nicholson, A. (2001) Risk and Impact of Natural Hazards on a Road Network. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 127(2), 159. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2001)127:2(159)  

  • June 19, 2010
  • 09:32 AM
  • 1,221 views

The causes of logistics uncertainty

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Logistics uncertainty – a new research strand in supply chain risk research? So it would seem, as this is the fourth time I’ve come across the authors of today’s article. In their most recent article  Evaluating the causes of uncertainty on logistics operations, just out, Vasco Sanchez-Rodrigues, Andrew Potter and Mohamed M. Naim further explore their transport uncertainty triad model which they started on some years ago, and whose articles have been mentioned on this blog in previous posts. It is only recently, though, that I have become aware of their research that links up perfectly with my own [ ... ]... Read more »

Sanchez-Rodrigues, Vasco, Potter, Andrew, & Naim, Mohamed M. (2010) Evaluating the causes of uncertainty in logistics operations. International Journal of Logistics Management, 21(1), 45-64. info:/

  • May 31, 2009
  • 06:02 PM
  • 1,210 views

Fragility and sustainability: emerging research areas?

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Should short-term loss-minimization and short-term profit maximization really be the driving force behind supply chain risk management? In their 2009 article Weak links in the supply chain: measuring fragility and sustainability, Stonebraker, Goldhar and Nassos point at a emerging area of supply chain research: fragility and sustainability, and they develop a framework for understanding and [...]... Read more »

Stonebraker, P., Goldhar, J., & Nassos, G. (2009) Weak links in the supply chain: measuring fragility and sustainability. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 20(2), 161-177. DOI: 10.1108/17410380910929600  

  • August 4, 2008
  • 12:05 AM
  • 1,202 views

From the back room to the board room – supply chain risk management

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Supply chain management used to be relegated to the logistics department of businesses and hardly thought of as matters concerning the top-level management. Similarly, risk management was handled by insurance specialists who concentrated on facilities, employees and shipping losses and security. However, in my opinion, risk and particularly supply chain risk should be an integral part of any board room discussion. Why?... Read more »

  • November 15, 2009
  • 06:01 PM
  • 1,187 views

Supply, Demand, and…”Miscellanous” Risk?

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

The other day I was proofreading the paper of a colleague when this paper in the reference list caught my attention. Not familiar with retail supply chains, here was a chance to learn something new…so I thought, and so I did. However, I’m not sure I follow the authors in their risk categorization: supply, demand and “miscellanous” risk? What is this “miscellanous” risk?
... Read more »

  • June 2, 2009
  • 06:25 PM
  • 1,184 views

Risk in supply networks – a tale of principals and agents

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Sometimes the most interesting articles are found outside the mainstream journals of ones field, and so it is with Cheng and Kam (2008) A conceptual framework for analyzing risk in supply networks, found in the Journal of Enterprise Information Management, a very unlikely journal for finding a paper on supply chain risk. It is not [...]... Read more »

Cheng, S., & Kam, B. (2008) A conceptual framework for analysing risk in supply networks. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 21(4), 345-360. DOI: 10.1108/17410390810888642  

  • June 4, 2009
  • 06:05 PM
  • 1,181 views

How to get a PhD without a dissertation

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Do you write academic papers? Do you really check and actually read your references before citing them? Every now and then I run a search on citation databases, e.g. Scopus, to see if someone has used my published or online work, and today something interesting turned up: my supposed PhD dissertation, cited in two separate and seemingly unrelated papers. While I appreciate the honor of being credited with a PhD, fact is, I don’t have a PhD…yet…so obviously someone did not do their homework.... Read more »

Wasi, S. R., & Bender, J. D. (2004) Spatially Enabled Pipeline Route Optimization Model. Prpceeding of the 2004 International Pipeline Conference (IPC2004) , 699-707. DOI: 10.1115/IPC2004-0362  

  • October 22, 2008
  • 12:05 AM
  • 1,178 views

Avoid Supply Chain Breakdown by Tailoring Your Risk Management

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

In my previous post on Ericsson versus Nokia - the now classic case of supply chain disruption I mentioned that Ericsson's and Nokia's different handling of the same supply chain disruption has become somewhat of a textbook case of how ill-handled disruptions can make or break a company’s existence. Here it is again, as the introduction to an article on tailored risk management by Sunil Chopra and ManMohan S. Sodhi from 2004.... Read more »

  • June 11, 2009
  • 06:43 PM
  • 1,178 views

Risk Management: Contingent versus Mitigative

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

The risk management literature separates between mitigative actions or strategies and contingent actions and strategies. It is important to keep these two perspectives apart. Why? Because risk management needs to address both sides of the risk: what lies behind the risk (source) and what lies in front of it (consequences). Here is my attempt at [...]... Read more »

  • June 19, 2008
  • 12:05 AM
  • 1,177 views

An empirical investigation into supply chain vulnerability

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Today’s journal article is from Germany. In An empirical investigation into supply chain vulnerability Stephan M. Wagner and Christoph Bode examine the relationship between a selection of supply chain characteristics and supply chain risks, and provide an empirical investigation into the supply chain vulnerability construct, based on a surveys and interviews of close to 5000 top-level executives.... Read more »

WAGNER, S., & BODE, C. (2006) An empirical investigation into supply chain vulnerability. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 12(6), 301-312. DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2007.01.004  

  • May 21, 2009
  • 06:05 PM
  • 1,173 views

Supply Risk Management: just common sense?

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Am I missing something here? Does Supply Risk Management come down to plain and simple common sense? I don’t mind authors who use propositions in their articles; it usually shows that they have a pretty good grip on their subject. But here...not only are the propositions not fully exploited, they appear to be little more than basic common sense, or is it me who is way off?... Read more »

Giunipero, L., & Eltantawy, R. (2004) Securing the upstream supply chain: a risk management approach. International Journal of Physical Distribution , 34(9), 698-713. DOI: 10.1108/09600030410567478  

  • June 13, 2009
  • 06:48 AM
  • 1,172 views

The six ways of dealing with risk

by Jan Husdal in husdal.com

Classic risk management literature acknowledges four ways of dealing with risk after establishing a risk matrix:  Avoid, Reduce, Transfer and Retain or Accept. However, as it turns out, there are six ways, not just four ways to deal with risk ,as the classic risk matrix indicates.  Two more are Exploit and Ignore. The former stems [...]... Read more »

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