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How to Alleviate the Bullwhip Effect in the Supply Chain

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Discuss how each of the following helps to alleviate the bullwhip effect?

1. E-Commerce and the Internet

2. Express Delivery

3. Vendor-managed inventory

4. Collaborative forecasts

5. Everyday low pricing

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The solution explains how the following can help alleviate the Bullwhip Effect in the supply chain: e-commerce and internet, express delivery, VMI, collaborative forecasts, and everyday low pricing. The solution is 411 words with 2 non-APA references.

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Discuss how each of the following helps to alleviate the bullwhip effect?
1. E-Commerce and the Internet: They provide the demand information needed by upstream parties such as suppliers. For this reason, e-commerce and internet must be accurate in the data they provide as it helps mitigate the Bullwhip Effect. Miscommunication of demand information causes distortion of information which causes demand variability.
E-commerce eliminates intermediaries and can easily provide the point-of-sale demand information to the supply chain partners. This decreases variation and an increase in the availability of demand information. The result is an ...

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