Effects of inventory control on bullwhip in supply chain planning for multiple companies

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 513-529

  Tominaga, Haruhiko ^a   Nishi, Tatsushi ^b   Konishi, Masami ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bullwhip effect; Dynamic modeling; Inventory control; Supply chain planning; Uncertain demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649103917     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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