Overview
- Essential know-how on risk-pooling methods, condensing more than 600 publications on the topic
- Offers a freely downloadable computerized decision support tool for Mac and Windows with pictorial step-by-step instructions
- Presents a practical case study to illustrate and facilitate the implementation of the software and risk pooling
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)
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About this book
This book provides comprehensive and concise definitions of risk pooling and risk-pooling methods, a straightforward statistical explanation, and a value-chain oriented framework for analyzing risk-pooling methods. Risk pooling mitigates demand and lead time uncertainty in logistics and supply chain management. The author also provides readers with a downloadable computerized decision support tool to compare and choose appropriate risk-pooling methods and to apply them in companies. Students and practitioners of logistics and supply chain management will find this book particularly useful.
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Book Title: Risk-Pooling Essentials
Book Subtitle: Reducing Demand and Lead Time Uncertainty
Authors: Gerald Oeser
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Business
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14157-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14156-5Published: 26 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14157-2Published: 14 January 2015
Series ISSN: 2191-5482
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5490
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 91
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Management, IT in Business, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance