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Calculating the Value-at-Risk

The Value-at-Risk is an important construct in estimating the economic implications of supply chain risks and in implementing the best strategies for supply chain risk management.

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Fragility and sustainability: emerging research areas?

Should short-term loss-minimization and short-term profit maximization really be the driving force behind supply chain risk management?

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Managing Supply Chain Risk

Did you know that the Supply Chain Council (SCS) has extended their renown SCOR-model to Supply Chain Risk Management? This presentation from the the SCS website will detail the changes to the SCOR model to account for Risk Management and how it integrates with the SCOR model risk enablers.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Cry Wolf?
Resilience Adviser or Scaremonger? What am I really? That is what started to ask myself after I[...]
Committed Americans and Trusting Germans
Obviously, selecting the right third-party logistics provider (3PL) for your supply chain is an impo[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Virtual Teams
This is another post resulting from my literature review when researching background material for my[...]
Book Review: Managing External Risk
I am blessed to have a college library that complies with most of my book acquisition requests and t[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
Risk management - Vocabulary
What is risk management in supply chains? The more I study supply chain risk management, the more co[...]
from HERE and THERE
International Transport Economics Conference 2009
If you haven't already done so, make sure to bookmark this conference in your calendar. The Internat[...]
Near-shoring - less risk?
You Can’t Understand China’s Slowdown Without Understanding Supply Chains. That's the title of a rec[...]