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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

During an economic crisis, the exaggerated decline in orders can be especially damaging to upstream suppliers that have high fixed costs tied to production assets. For example , U.S. This phenomenon has been documented in the consumer-packaged-goods , food , semiconductor-manufacturing , and other industries.