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...

Cash flow variability is driven by operational decisions and has implications for operating performance and valuation. Despite this, and the early influence that operations management had on cash flow management, the prevailing approach to managing cash flow variability is through external...