New start-up companies, which are considered to be a vital ingredient in a successful economy, have a different objective than established companies: They want to maximise their chance of long-term survival. We examine the implications for their operating decisions of this different criterion by...

Multiple depot inventory systems with stock transfer are used by many companies especially when demand is high relative to storage capacity. The key issues in such systems are how many of each item to hold at each depot and what to do if there is a demand for an item at a depot that has none of...

Stress-testing has become an important topic in retail lending since the introduction of the new Basel II guidelines. Here we use a scenario-based forecasting approach developed explicitly for retail lending in order to provide a suitable stress-testing approach. We first decompose the...