On Replenishment Rules, Forecasting and the Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains

by Stephen M. Disney, Marc R. Lambrecht

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781601981325
Publisher:	Now Publishers Inc
Publication date:	05/06/2008
Series:	Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management , #4
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.20(d)

Table of Contents

1. Modern Supply Chains. 2. The Bullwhip Effect: The Dynamics of Supply Chains. 3. Methodological approaches to studying the bullwhip problem. 4. Replenishment rules, forecasting and the demand process. 5. Transferring the inventory decisions to the upstream levels: Vendor Managed Inventory as a variance reduction tool. 6. Coordination of replenishment rules in a multi-echelon setting. 7. New directions in bullwhip research. 8. References.