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A comment on California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies. Parent comment

Re:California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain ineff... by halestock on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:59PM (#29355624)
Yep, that is known as the bullwhip effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
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Re:California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain ineff... by spacemannoslen on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:01PM (#29356052)
Nice, my Georgia tech OMSA classes have finally reached real world instance of hearing something I learned about. Thx
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Re:California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain ineff... by quietbritishjim on Saturday November 27, 2021 @07:23AM (#29359629)
That looks quite different. According to the article, the key feature of the bullwhip effect is that it goes both too high and too low.
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Re:California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain ineff... by marcosdumay on Saturday November 27, 2021 @07:39AM (#29359714)
Exactly. It's a very different phenomenon from group velocity.

Both commonly happen after supply chain disruptions. Bullwhip effect happens over the entire chain, while group velocity happens on a single stage of it.

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