3rd Newsletter: Assisting SMEs in Supply Chain Risk Management

The increase of data exchange, ICT advances, and other emerging demands require efficient supplychain management. Threats due to digital insertions can compromise aspects pertinent to the processes, planning, proprietary knowledge, data sharing and so on. However, the raise of such concerns corresponds to all company contexts, despite the size. Therefore, updated and profound knowledge on …

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SMEs In The Face Of Crisis: A Publication Of Our Esteemed Partners From Estonia

SMEs in the Face of Crisis: A Publication of our Esteemed Partners from Estonia

Our BePrepared project partners from Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia, Susanne Durst, Lidia Davies, and Wolfgang Dieter Gerstlberger, have recently published a chapter titled SMEs in the Face of Crisis: The Supply Chain Risk Management Perspective in the book Increasing Supply Chain Performance in Digital Society (DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9715-6.ch010). This book chapter was prepared in …

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Why The Digital Transformation In Supply Chains Should Be About People Over Tech

Why the Digital Transformation in Supply Chains Should be About People Over Tech

Digital transformation is often seen as the panacea for many things inside a business, including supply chains. However, this is far from the truth. The digital transformation of business led by Industry 4.0 technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is complex by nature. Therefore, even though they can tremendously benefit businesses, the successful …

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Registrations For The Research Summer School 2022 At Wiesbaden Business School Are Now Open

Registrations for the Research Summer School 2022 at Wiesbaden Business School are now Open

This summer be part of something big! The Research Summer School 2022 at Wiesbaden Business School from July 17-24, 2022, in Wiesbaden, Germany, is the result of two European research projects: the and . To ensure that those projects are not only scientifically valuable but also practically useful, the Research Summer School aims at building …

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Shanghai: World’s Biggest Port Is Returning To Normal, But Supply Chains Will Get Worse Before They Get Better

Shanghai: world’s biggest port is returning to normal, but supply chains will get worse before they get better

, and , Shanghai is slowly emerging from a gruelling COVID lockdown that has the city since March. Although Shanghai’s port, which of China’s shipping volumes, has been operating throughout, it at severely reduced capacity. Many shipments have either been cancelled, postponed or rerouted to other Chinese mega-ports such as Ningbo-Zhousan. With the city due …

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2nd Newsletters: BePrepared - Assisting SMEs In Supply Chain Risk Management

2nd Newsletters: BePrepared – Assisting SMEs in Supply Chain Risk Management

The increase of data exchange, ICT advances, and other emerging demands require efficient supplychain management. Threats due to digital insertions can compromise aspects pertinent to the processes, planning, proprietary knowledge, data sharing and so on. However, the raise of such concerns corresponds to all company contexts, despite the size. Therefore, updated and profound knowledge on …

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Importance Of Digitalization To Improve Supply Chains: Helping Businesses Navigate Through Supply Chain Disruptions

The Importance of Supply Chain Digitization to Avoid disruptions

The supply chain is facing disruptions and hurdles from multiple sources, including labor shortages, limited or scarce resources, and increased consumer demands. Digitization of the supply chain brings all parties together to create a smoother and more efficient process. Like other industries, logistics is poised for a shakeup from digital transformation. leverages technology like big …

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Supply Chain Risk Management in SMEs: A Research Paper by BePrepared Partners

Even though the bibliography on SME risk management (RM) in general and for supply chains (SCs) specifically has increased recently, there is still the need for further research. Research on new types of risks like dynamic crises or risks associated with digital transformation (DT) are yet to be explored. This paper by , and attempted …

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