Impact of information sharing and lead time on bullwhip effect and on-hand inventory

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 576-593

  Agrawal, Sunil ^a   Sengupta, Raghu Nandan ^a   Shanker, Kripa ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptive base stock policy; Bullwhip effect; Information sharing (IS); Minimum mean squared error (MMSE) forecasting model

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SUPPLY CHAINS;

ADAPTIVE BASE-STOCK POLICY; BULLWHIP EFFECT; BULLWHIP EFFECTS; INFORMATION SHARING (IS); MINIMUM MEAN SQUARED ERROR (MMSE) FORECASTING MODEL;

SALES;

EID: 51249105334     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.09.015     Document Type: Article

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