Redesigns of supply chains have been largely limited to the differentiation of delivery processes to offer customers different delivery lead‐times on different products. In the future, differentiation will go much deeper, back into the supply chains within and across companies. Companies,...

Over the past two decades, most major corporations have installed some sort of formal planning system. Such a system represents an important commitment to rational, professional management and should, in theory, provide a sound basis for the setting of strategic and operational objectives and...

Increased demand variability in supply chains (the bullwhip effect) has been discussed in the literature. The practical measurement of this effect, however, entails some problems that have not received much attention in the literature and that have to do with the aggregation of data,...