Chapter 10 Flashcards
Information distortion is exaggerated by the fact that
supply chains today produce a large amount of product variety.
The situation in which fluctuations in orders increase as they move up the supply chain from retailers to wholesalers to manufacturers to suppliers is known as
the bullwhip effect.
The bullwhip effect causes
different stages of the supply chain to have a very different estimate of what demand looks like.
The lack of coordination within a supply chain will result in a decrease in
level of product availability
and
replenishment lead time.
Long term boom and bust cycles that mimic the bullwhip effect include
memory chips for personal computers.
The bullwhip effect decreases
product availability.
and
profitability.
The bullwhip effect
hurts the relationships between different stages of the supply chain.
The bullwhip effect moves a supply chain
away from the efficient frontier by increasing cost and decreasing responsiveness.
Situations where incentives offered to different stages or participants in a supply chain lead to actions that increase variability and reduce total supply chain profits are referred to as
incentive obstacles.
Incentives that focus only on the local impact of an action result in decisions that
do not maximize total supply chain profits.
The lack of supply chain coordination on various measures of performance has costs associated with it. Which of the following is one of these costs?
Manufacturing
The lack of supply chain coordination on various measures of performance has costs associated with it. Which of the following is one of these costs?
Quality
The impact of the lack of coordination on supply chain processes decreases for the following measure:
level of product availability.
The sales typically measured by a manufacturer are
the quantity sold to distributors or retailers (sell-in).
Situations where demand information is distorted as it moves between different stages of the supply chain, leading to increased variability in orders within the supply chain are referred to as
information processing obstacles.
The fact that each stage in a supply chain forecasts demand based on the stream of orders received from the downstream stage results in
a magnification of fluctuations in demand as we move up the supply chain from the retailer to the manufacturer.
The lack of information sharing between the retailer and manufacturer
leads to a large fluctuation in manufacturer orders.
Actions taken in the course of placing and filling orders that lead to an increase in variability are referred to as
operational obstacles.