Risk-Pooling Essentials

Download or read book Risk-Pooling Essentials written by Gerald Oeser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.