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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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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Black Swan Events
Black Swan events - should we even bother? The October issue of the Harvard Business Review had a sp[...]
Six levels of risk management
In spite of all efforts to design safer systems, we still witness severe, large-scale accidents. A b[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: Networks and Algorithms
If you are into network analysis of any kind, this book teaches you the basics. As the name implies,[...]
Book Review: Heads in the sand
Finally, after 5 days of volcanic ash cloud posting, I can return to my regular topics of supply cha[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Transport infrastructure resilience
Is it possible to devise a simple framework for assessing the resilience of the transport infrastruc[...]
Engineering transportation lifelines
New Zealand is probably not the fist country that comes to mind when thinking of state-of-the-art tr[...]
from HERE and THERE
Supply Chain Risk Management Survey
Effective Supply Chain Risk Management has become one of the key ways of securing competitive advant[...]
Near-shoring - less risk?
You Can’t Understand China’s Slowdown Without Understanding Supply Chains. That's the title of a rec[...]