Economic Engineering for Supply Chain Management: Mitigating the Bullwhip Effect Using PID Control

The purpose of Supply Chain Management (SCM) is to maximize and stabilize the flow of goods through a supply chain. Disruptions to this flow, such as the Bullwhip Effect (BWE), have become increasingly severe and dynamic, challenging current methods for counteracting these disruptions. This thesis develops a systems and control framework for...

A Blockchain Architecture for Reducing the Bullwhip Effect

Supply chain management is hampered by a lack of information sharing among partners. Information is not shared as organizations in the supply chain do not have direct contact and/or do not want to share competitive and privacy sensitive information. In addition, companies are often part of multiple supply chains and trading partners vary over...

Solving the Bullwhip Effect in Supply Networks by incentivizing behaviour through decentralized Forecast Accuracy Discount agreements: A simulation case study within the Supply Chain of the Technische Unie and Legrand Nederland

Current research towards solutions on the Bullwhip Effect have focused mainly on the systemic and operational causes of the Bullwhip Effect, resulting in solutions that require high levels of organizational integration, central coordination and information sharing. However, Such solutions are not always feasible within actual complex Supply...