Supply Chain Risk Management

As reported in the Luxembourg Times last week, "European Union governments will launch later this week a large-scale simulation of cyberattacks against multiple member states. Participants will [...]

A new variant of COVID-19 named Omicron was reported this past weekend, prompting many countries to take measures to minimize its transmission, such as imposing travel bans. It is a reminder that [...]

I first wrote about the cyber threat to supply chains almost 7 years ago in The Hackers Inside Your Supply Chain. Two years later in The Day A Cyber Attack Brings The World’s Supply Chains To A [...]

A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal discusses how GPS is vital to many aspects of business and society, "but hacking it has never been easier." If GPS was disabled, intentionally or [...]

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, "Germany is set to force companies to screen suppliers for environmental violations and human-rights abuses, such as illegal mining and child labor...Under [...]

US President Biden announced last week via an executive order that “it is the policy of my Administration to strengthen the resilience of America’s supply chains.” What does supply chain [...]

According to a recent Wall Street Journal article ("SolarWinds Hack Forces Reckoning With Supply-Chain Security"), the hacking of SolarWinds "pushed many businesses to analyze their network [...]

In the post Hidden Suppliers Can Make or Break Your Operations (Harvard Business Review, May 2015), the authors write, “With the size and complexity of supply chains soaring, a daunting [...]

As a recent article in the Wall Street Journal revealed, the problem of forced labor in supply chains persists. Is this an issue in your industry? What factors contribute to this problem?

Governments around the world are setting up contact tracing processes as a way to slow the spread of COVID-19. Will contact tracing -- i.e., having the ability to inform employees if they have [...]