Problem definition: We investigate variations of the bullwhip effect of foreign subsidiaries and explore how it is affected by various features of foreign subsidiaries. Academic/practical relevance: During the era of global supply chain restructuring, researchers and executives of multinational...

We study the supply chain implications of dynamic pricing. Specifically, we estimate how reducing menu costs---the operational burden of adjusting prices---would affect supply chain volatility. Fitting a structural econometric model to data from a large Chinese supermarket chain, we estimate...

Problem definition: We study the bullwhip effect and analyze the impact of human behavior. We separate rational ordering in response to increasing incoming orders from irrational ordering. Academic/Practical Relevance: Prior research has shown that the bullwhip effect occurs in about two-thirds...

Following the recession created by the recent global financial crisis, which caused disruptions in the funding markets and in the financial flow level of supply chains, companies were forced to reduce their working capital targets, as well as find new forms of financing their business plans....

We introduce the concept of the lt;igt;reverse bullwhip effectlt;/igt; (RBWE), which can be caused by supply disruptions. In the RBWE, order variability increases as one moves downstream in the supply chain, and therefore the RBWE is the opposite of the classical bullwhip effect (BWE). We test...

An important supply chain research problem is the bullwhip effect: demand fluctuations increase as one moves up the supply chain from retailer to manufacturer. It has been recognized that demand forecasting and ordering policies are two of the key causes of the bullwhip effect. In this paper we...