Talk:Bullwhip effect

Merge with Supply Chain Management
The supply chain management has a bullwhip effect heading with different information to that stored here. Suggest consensus is reached and that this article is merged into the SCM article.
 * Please refer to the disccusion re proposed merge on the Supply Chain Management talk page. Consensus is that it not be moved. Reverting. Sonicace 03:06, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

the name
why the name? can someone explain this? Jackzhp 19:40, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Ans to this is its just how whip works, small pull may result in a bigger result!! and again thats for Bull so the name.

Parin Joshi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.36.145.69 (talk) 02:50, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Benford's law
Surely the citation should be to this | Benford's law of controversy not | Benford's law on the distribution of digits. 86.167.250.251 (talk) 22:33, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

June 2020 substantial rewrite
It appears this article has been completely changed in the past few days, by a single editor removing previous content and inserting new, possibly copyvio content instead. I've asked the editor in question to come and explain their reasoning here. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:08, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Has now been rolled back to earlier version, in case anyone is wondering what my earlier comment was about. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 16:39, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Yep, there was a lot of copyvio in it, so I reverted and history had to be revision deleted. Joseph2302 (talk) 18:00, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Seems someone (same ed?) is at it again, though, and the copypaste tag has been added back. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 05:20, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Removed some more copyvios. Looks like there's still possible copying with [coursehero.com/file/46974549/bullwhipdocx] in the article, though looks like they're copying us (as their text is from Fall 2019, and ours is earlier than that). Joseph2302 (talk) 08:56, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * There sure seems to be a lot of interest from certain quarters in adding spammy links to this and a few similar logistics-related articles... -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:43, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Source for countermeasure info
Sources for this bit? Looks like it was added by IDno3 in 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bullwhip_effect&direction=next&oldid=192560615


 * eliminate pathological incentives
 * every day low price policy
 * restrict returns and order cancellations
 * order allocation based on past sales instead of current size in case of shortage