China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. In the context of a normal economy with modest demand volatility, the bullwhip effect causes volatility to vary across the tiers of a supply chain.
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