Investigating the impact of inventory inaccuracy on the bullwhip effect in RFID-enabled supply chains using colored petri nets

• Published in: Journal of modelling in management Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 360 - 384
• Main Authors: Drakaki, Maria, Tzionas, Panagiotis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford Emerald Publishing Limited 02.05.2019; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Collaboration; Costs; Information sharing; Inventory; Inventory control; Inventory management; Investigations; Product life cycle; Product lifecycle management; Radio frequency identification; Simulation; Standard deviation; Studies; Supply chains; Wholesalers; RFID; Bullwhip effect; Supply chain management; Modelling; Inventory inaccuracy; Simulation

Purpose Information distortion results in demand variance amplification in upstream supply chain members, known as the bullwhip effect, and inventory inaccuracy in the inventory records. As inventory inaccuracy contributes to the bullwhip effect, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the impac...