Mitigating the bullwhip effect by ordering policies and forecasting methods

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 587-597

  Wright, David ^a   Yuan, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bullwhip effect; Forecasting; Ordering policy; Simulation model.; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

BULLWHIP EFFECTS; ORDERING POLICIES; PERFORMANCE METRICS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 43549111354     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2007.10.022     Document Type: Article

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