Tag Archives: supply chain collaboration

ISF2018 Presentation: Information Sharing in the Presence of Promotions in a Supply Chain

Patrick Saoud, Nikolaos Kourentzes and John Boylan, ISF2018, 20th June 2018 Many supply chains experience the Bullwhip effect, defined as the upstream amplification of demand variability. This information distortion results in a misalignment of forecasts, generating expensive business costs. A proposed remedy in the literature is the sharing of Point of Sales information data among… Read More »

Academia vs. Business: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Issue 41 of Foresight featured a short commentary by Sujit Singh on the gaps between academia and business. Together with Fotios Petropoulos, motivated by our focus to produce and disseminate research that is directly applicable to practice, in this commentary we present our views on some of the very useful and interesting points raised by… Read More »

Re-evaluating the bullwhip effect measurement: what are we capturing?

P. Saoud, N. Kourentzes, J. Boylan, 2015, 27th European Conference on operational Research, Glasgow.

Impact of Information Exchange on Supplier Forecasting Performance

J. R. Trapero, N. Kourentzes and R. Fildes, 2012, OMEGA, 40: 738-747. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2011.08.009