What do coffee, ketchup, gasoline, wood pulp and rubber all have in common? These are items that have been identified to become less available in 2021. And why is that? It’s something called “The ...
If it seems like there are more sales lately, it’s because there are. General retailers are shedding excess inventory. Why? Just blame the bullwhip effect. WSJ’s Jon Hilsenrath explains what it is, ...
From computer chips to chicken wings, the pandemic has led to shortages across the economy. One reason they’ve been so severe and so widespread is an economic phenomenon known as the “bullwhip effect.
The shocks of the pandemic economy gave us a bunch of enormous natural experiments, which helped to prove or disprove conventional economic thinking. Take, for example, the bullwhip effect, the idea ...
One of the curses of the Great Supply Chain Disruption of 2020 was the phenomenon known as “the bullwhip effect.” It describes a series of events by which relatively small issues at the beginning of a ...
Burry Calls the "Bullwhip Effect" Recently, Burry tweeted about a CNN report that said retailers prefer customers keep their unwanted items, rather than returning them: According to Burry, this ...
About the author: Christopher S. Tang is a University Distinguished Professor and Edward W. Carter chair in business administration at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The Covid-19 pandemic ...
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