The bullwhip effects in industrialized building system supply chains

• Main Authors: Taherkhani, R., Nekooie, M. A., Saleh, Abdul Latif, Mohamad, Mohamad Ibrahim, Mansur, Shaiful Amri, Nourbakhsh, Mehdi, Zolfaghaarian, Samaneh
• Format: Article
• Published: American Scientific Publishers 2012
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33691/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2012.3824

The bullwhip effect occurs when the demand is faced with large fluctuations and the information flowing through the supply chain distorted. It mentions the small change on the side of a system can bring about great influence on the other side which reduces the efficiency of the supply chain. Accordi...