The Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains Hau L. Lee • V. Padmanabhan • Seungjin Whang Distorted information from one end of a supply chain to the other can lead to tremendous inefficiencies: excessive inventory investment‚ poor customer service‚ lost revenues‚ mis^ided capacity plans‚ ineffective transportation‚ and missed production schedides. How do exaggerated order swings occur? What can companies do to mitigate them? ot long ago‚ logistics executives at Procter & Camble (P&C) examined the order
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The St Venant Equations Dr P A Sleigh Dr I M Goodwill School of Civil Engineering‚ University of Leeds March 2000 1 THE DERIVATION OF THE CONTINUITY EQUATION ...........................................................................................1 2 THE DERIVATION OF THE DYNAMIC OR MOMENTUM EQUATION. ...............................................................2 3 THE SOLUTION OF THE ST VENANT EQUATIONS ...................................................................
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The Impact of Information Sharing Strategies in Multi-level Supply Chain Xiongwei Zhou‚ Feicheng Ma‚ Ling Zhang‚ Xueying Wang School of Information Management Wuhan University Wuhan‚ P.R.China E-mail:daweycs@126.com.fchma@whu.edu.cn Abstract- Information sharing is a major strategy to counteract the bullwhip effect. Previous research suggested that applying different ISS(information sharing strategy) to the supply chain may improve the supply chain performance under a simplified two-level supply
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and outside work - to satisfy the needs of the people in the organization. This is achieved with the help of upstream and downstream partners of the enterprise. To this‚ we have to add the corporate citizenship‚ i.e. the social‚ technological‚ economical‚ political‚ and ecological (STEPE) responsibility of the enterprise concerning its internal (its people) and external (upstream and downstream) partners‚ and community. Therefore‚ Total quality management goes well beyond satisfying the customer‚ or
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the levees along the Mississippi‚ and of its tributaries‚ means that water is more confines‚ so although it reduces flood risk upstream‚ due to the water rising higher and flowing faster‚ the flood risk downstream is increased. Dredging can be used to create a deeper channel so that greater volumes of water can pass through‚ however flood risk is increased downstream. This can be seen at numerous points along the Mississippi river‚ and also where the upper st Anthony falls dam is‚ dredging has
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Content 1. Overview of Building Curtain Wall Industry Development 1.1 Introduction on Building Curtain Wall Industry 1.2 Relationship between Upstream Industry and Downstream Industry 2. Development Environment of Building Curtain Wall Industry in China 2.1 Macroeconomic Environment 2.2 Policy Environment 2.3 Technological Environment 3. Upstream and Downstream of Building Curtain Wall Industry in China 3.1
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depends on one’s position within the chain. The producer or manufacturer of the goods is usually located in the middle of the chain. Traditionally it was the manufacturer who “owned” the chain‚ leading change initiatives both upstream to raw material suppliers‚ and downstream through distribution channels to retailers and end users. Today‚ with the increasingly strong leadership role played by the mega retailers (yes‚ Wal-mart is a prime example)‚ manufacturers are taking the secondary role to retailers
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Supply Chain Management and Fair Trade Executive Summary Resources are scarce and overstretched as a result of the fiercely competitive global environment which is as a result of globalisation‚ population increment and development of new technologies. On the basis of food food supply chain’s dependency on these scarce resources‚ sustainability of food has to be adopted through various approaches – the conventional approach (freetraide food supply chain) and the alternative approach (fairtrade
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half of Sabah and Sarawak’s market requirements and it shares production contract with Malaysian oil and gas company Petronas (Shell‚ 2013). Shell operations in Malaysia involve upstream‚ downstream‚ project and technology and shell business service center. 1.2.1 SHELL OPERATIONS A) UPSTREAM OPERATIONS Shell upstream operations have been there for 100 years‚ and their main focus is in the
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environments. This study proposes risk mitigation methodologies relevant to the hi-tech industry. The proposed risk methodologies are based on analysis of the supply-chain characteristics inherent to the hi-tech industry‚ vulnerabilities in the upstream and downstream hi-tech supply chain and successful steps taken by hi-tech firms in response to supply chain disruptions. ____________________________________________________________ _________________________ 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Definition of Supply Chain
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