New forecasting insights on the bullwhip effect in a supply chain

IMA Journal of Management Mathematics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 259-286

  Najafi, Mehdi ^a   Farahani, Reza Zanjirani ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bullwhip effect; double exponential smoothing; exponential smoothing; forecasting; linear regression; moving average; simulation; supply chain; weighted moving average

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION; SUPPLY CHAINS;

BULLWHIP EFFECTS; DOUBLE EXPONENTIAL; EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING; MOVING AVERAGES; SIMULATION; WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84902981989     PISSN: 1471678X     EISSN: 14716798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imaman/dpt007     Document Type: Article

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