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Why is it called bullwhip effect?
by praptak 7y ago
Why is it called bullwhip effect?
- Phillipharryt 7y agoA small movement at the handle of a bullwhip produces an enormous (and oscillating) movement further down the the whip, it's an analogy for movements in customer demand having large effects further down the supply chain.
- bmn__ 7y agoSee first illustration: http://enwp.org/Bullwhip_effect http://enwp.org/Bullwhip_effect The graph representing over-/undersupply resembles the movements of a whip. Out of curiosity: did you try to look up the answer to your question before asking it here?