تحقیقات تجربی در مورد پیش از اثر شلاق چاک: شواهد از صنعت قطعات یدکی

The results showed that the considered supply chain is affected by the bullwhip effect. Additional analyses suggested that the bullwhip effect is larger for fast moving products rather than for slow movers. Hence, dealers tends to decouple supply and demand and, when they are given incentives to forward-buy, they may prefer to forward-buy fast moving items. Moreover, as the dealers tend to exploit the promotional benefits by forward-buying in the final period of promotions, frequent switches from promotional to non promotional periods tend to increase the propagation of the demand variability.