Title: Impact of Lead-Time Distribution on the Bullwhip Effect and Supply Chain Performance
Abstract: In this paper, we simulate an extendable multi-agent linear supply chain to evaluate the impact of different lead-time distributions on bullwhip effect and supply chain performance under centralized and decentralized information sharing strategies. Given a fixed total lead-time across the supply chain, centralized information sharing and disintermediation improve the supply chain performance. A skewed lead-time distribution also reduces the bullwhip effect under decentralized information sharing strategy. Although the bullwhip effect remains unchanged, different lead-time distributions will lead to different supply chain performance. These insights can help practitioners in the re-configuration of the supply chain.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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