Foundations and TrendsŪ in Technology, Information and Operations Management
ON REPLENISHMENT RULES, FORECASTING AND THE BULLWHIP EFFECT IN SUPPLY CHAINS
by Stephen M Disney (Cardiff University) & Marc R Lambrecht (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
On Replenishment Rules, Forecasting and the Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains focuses on supply chain co-ordination. The bullwhip effect is used as the key example of supply chain inefficiency. The authors focus both on the managerial relevance of the bullwhip effect and the methodological issues making it essential reading for both managers and researchers.
Published by Now Publishers and marketed by World Scientific
Contents:
- Modern Supply Chains
- The Bullwhip Effect: The Dynamics of Supply
Chains
- Methodological Approaches to Studying the Bullwhip Problem
- Replenishment Rules, Forecasting and the Demand Process
- Transferring the Inventory Decisions to the Upstream Levels: Vendor Managed Inventory as a Variance Reduction Tool
- Coordination of Replenishment Rules in a Multi-Echelon Setting
- New Directions in Bullwhip Research
- References
Readership: Graduate and postgraduate, practitioners interested in operations
and supply chain management, management researchers.
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