Seungjin Whang

TL;DR: The authors analyzes four sources of the bullwhip effect: demand signal processing, rationing game, order batching, and price variations, and shows that the distortion tends to increase as one moves upstream.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify four major causes of the bullwhip effect: demand forecast updating, rationing, price fluctuation, and shortage games, and they suggest several ways in which companies can counteract the effect.

TL;DR: The bullwhip effect occurs when the demand order variabilities in a supply chain are amplified as they moved up the supply chain this article, which can lead to tremendous inefficiencies: excessive inventory investment, poor customer service, lost revenues, misguided capacity plans, inactive transportation, and missed production schedules.

TL;DR: The types of information shared inventory, sales, demand forecast, order status, and production schedule are described and how and why this information is shared are discussed using industry examples and relating them to academic research.

TL;DR: An economic understanding of how information systems affect some key measures of organization structure is developed to develop a lack of comprehensive analysis of these issues from the economic perspective.