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-invariant inventory management policies; the focus is on robustness. The supply chain is modeled as a single-input, single-output control system driven by arbitrary customer demands....