Supply chain need to be correctly managed in order to be effective. The bullwhip effect undermines the stability of supply chain. This paper describes the bullwhip effect and its caues. Una supply chain non gestita efficacemente è intrinsecamente instabile. L’evidenza empirica dimostra che la...

When an unreliable supplier serves multiple retailers, the retailers may compete with each other by inflating their order quantities in order to obtain their desired allocation from the supplier, a behavior known as the rationing game. We introduce capacity information sharing and a capacity...

According to supply chain pundits, information has replaced inventory. Now, Information affects the design and operations of the supply chain more efficiently and effectively than ever before. At the same time distorted information from retailers to wholesalers and distributors can cause serious...

This study examines the potential of RFID technology to increase the agility of supply-chain e-commerce systems by mitigating the bullwhip effect. The bullwhip effect is a supply-chain phenomenon that reveals a lack of business agility characterized by the amplification of inventory variance....

The Bullwhip Effect, defined as the magnification of demand variability throughout the supply chain, poses a challenge to many firms. One of its contributing factors is inaccurate forecasts used to support demand planning. Forecast errors translate into higher inventory costs at a local level,...

The service-oriented economy has prompted traditional product-oriented manufacturing firms to increasingly infuse various services into their businesses. This research provides empirical evidence disclosing the impact of manufacturers' service offerings on two bullwhip issues, namely "felt"...

Empirical estimation of the bullwhip effect has several challenges as discussed in prior literature (e.g., Cachon et al. 2007; Bray and Mendleson 2012; Chen and Lee 2012), although the bullwhip effect has been well studied in the modeling papers. We address these empirical challenges using a large-scale...

Cloud computing services need to be understood for analyzing Cloud Supply Chain Network (CSCN). One of the key information in a Supply Chain Network (SCN) is the quantity that is demanded at various nodes of the SCN. Every node in the supply chain tends to stock more items than actually needed...