The Law of Industrial Dynamics ensures that if a production control system can amplify then it will surely find a way of doing so despite the best efforts of production schedulers to take corrective action. In fact, practical studies show that such human intervention frequently aggravates the...

Reviews the dynamic operation of supply chains and reaches some simple conclusions for reducing demand amplification, which consequently attenuates swings in both production rates and stock levels. The results are based on one particular supply chain, for which the use of systems simplification...

A number of strategies for reducing supply chain demand amplification and simultaneously improving customer service levels have been modelled and tested via dynamic simulation. To create an environment in which supply chain re‐design methodologies may be exploited, it is necessary to study the...