Delayed demand information and dampened bullwhip effect

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 289-294

  Zhang, Xiaolong ^a,b  

^a FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Information Systems ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bullwhip effect; Forecasting; Information delay; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

BULLWHIP EFFECT; DEMAND FORECASTING; DEMAND INFORMATION; OPERATION UNITS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 10044254169     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2004.05.010     Document Type: Article

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