Recent work in the supply chain literature suggests that the variance in orders placed with suppliers will be larger than that of sales to buyers. This distortion in demand information increases as it is passed along the supply chain from customers to upstream suppliers and has been referred to...

We offer a new network perspective on one of the central topics in Operations Management -- the bullwhip effect (BWE). The topic has both practical and scholarly implications. We start with an observation: the variability of orders placed to suppliers is larger than the variability of sales to...

This paper investigates whether the bullwhip has economic consequences at the firm level. In particular, we examine the relation between the bullwhip and various accounting/financial performance measures including equity returns, cash flows, earnings, and earnings attributes such as earnings...

The Bullwhip Effect amplifies demand variations through a supply network. Accordingly, we expect that the Bullwhip Effect decreases earnings quality and increases the uncertainty of the public information available to stock investors and creditors. Based on a sample of US public firms from 1998...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) has come to stay as a key driver of business success and source of competitive advantage. Aligning business process through corporate restructuring is an age-old phenomenon. But more significantly, streamlining flow of goods and services along with that of...