Jan Husdal

Amazon Cloudfront as Content Delivery Network

Jan — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:30:01 +0000

How can I ensure a timely and reliable delivery of my blog contents to each and every reader throughout the entire Internet? This is the ultimate question for the supply chain of my blog. The delivery network is as crucial to a blog as it is to any business. While it is important to have the right infrastructure, aka cables and connections, what really matters most – as in much of real-life logistics – is delivery speed. Setting up Amazon Cloudfront as a Content Delivery Network has many similarities to real-world logistics, as this post will explain.

>>> Amazon Cloudfront as Content Delivery Network >>>

Suppliers are forever – or maybe not?

Jan — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:49:47 +0000

Supplier relationships, supplier performance and supplier development are important elements of the supply chain life cycle, where supply chains are dynamic and where supply chain partners are constantly changing. Developing and honing these relationships is an integral part of every business’ supply chain management. But is supplier development always worth the effort? The answer is No, and a recent paper by Stephan Wagner tells you why. What Wagner means here is that supplier development activities must take into account at which stage or phase the relationship is, in order to be effective. Supplier development activities may even be counterproductive if forcefully applied too early or too late in the relationship.

>>> Diamonds are forever – suppliers are not >>>

What is a crisis? What defines a crisis?

Jan — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:53:43 +0000

What defines a crisis? Are there different types of crises? In an article by Stephan Gundel, crises are classified according to how predictable and influenceable they are. This generates four types of crises: Conventional, Unexpected, Intractable and Fundamental crisis. Conventional crises are predictable and influenceable. Unexpected crises are hard to predict, but can be influenced when they occur. Intractable crises can be anticipated but interference is practically impossible, making responding difficult and preparing hard. Fundamental crises represent the most dangerous class of crises, since they can be neither predicted nor influenced. Is this typology useful?

>>> Towards a new typology of crises >>>

Supply Chain Risk lessons from the toy industry

Jan — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:33:53 +0000

Few of the risks faced by toy makers are unique to the industry, but the combination of risks is something any CEO will lose sleep over. There are risks associated with product demand including seasonality, volatility of fads, new product adoptions, and short product life, and let’s not forget the public’s perception of safety and toy company ethics. Then there are the risks of product supply such as manufacturing and logistics capacity during peak periods, and with supply chains stretching across the globe, there are also substantial currency and political risks that can change product cost or disrupt supply.

>>> Toy Stories: Lessons in Supply Chain Risk >>>

Security Risk Management

Jan — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:37:50 +0000

Security Risk Management – Body of Knowledge, or SRMBOK in short, is a vast and practically all-encompassing repository of knowledge, filled with accepted best practices, innovations and research in the evolving field of security risk management. This is a solid handbook that leaves no ground uncovered, blending security, risk, resilience, business continuity and even supply chain management into one. It is perhaps THE reference document which brings together a wide range of security-related domains, methodologies and disciplines to make a “one-stop-shopping” or single source toolkit and reference bible for consultants, managers, students and practitioners.

>>> Security Risk Management >>>