Ouyang, Yanfeng; Daganzo, Carlos - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 10, pp. 1544-1556
The authors analyze the bullwhip effect in multistage, decentralized supply chains operated with linear and time … bullwhip effect and bound its magnitude, based only on the way inventories are managed. These results hold independently of the …. The authors also show that the bullwhip effect can be mitigated by introducing commitments for future orders into the …