Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the information pertaining to the downstream
part of the supply chain and then reviews the upstream information. The chapter discusses …

An important observation in supply chain management, known as the bullwhip effect,
suggests that demand variability increases as one moves up a supply chain. In this paper …

Comprehensively teaches the fundamentals of supply chain theory This book presents the
methodology and foundations of supply chain management and also demonstrates how …

An important observation in supply chain management, popularly known as the bull-whip
effect, suggests that demand variability increases as one moves up a supply chain. For …

In this paper, we consider the revenue management problem from the perspective of online
algorithms. This approach eliminates the need for both demand forecasts and a risk …

This work was stimulated by a comment made by a former student (Prof. Alan Erera of
Georgia Tech) in connection with an inventory stabil ity game he was going to play in one of …

Demand forecasting is one of the key causes of the bullwhip effect on product orders.
Although this aspect of order oscillation is not ignored, the current study focuses on another …

Information sharing has been shown previously in the literature to be effective in reducing
the magnitude of the bullwhip effect. Most of these studies have focused on a particular …

This paper examines the stability of decentralized, multistage supply chains under arbitrary
demand conditions. It looks for intrinsic properties of the inventory replenishment policies …

We consider stochastic finite-horizon inventory models with discrete distributions that are
incompletely specified by selected moments, percentiles, or a combination of moments and …