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The Bullwhip effect on supply chains

• arclein

Different people control different segments of a supply chain. The manager of a convenience store works separately from the owner of a wholesale food distributor who works separately from the floor manager at a Doritos factory. Those people often don't communicate well. A factory manager has limited information about sales at individual stores, and a store manager knows little about production at the facto