Vendor Managed Inventory and Bullwhip effect:
I need help with the following questions for my 5 page paper:
1. Is Vendor Managed Inventory a valid method for reducing the Bullwhip effect (BWE)?
2. How does it compare to other inventory management methods for reducing the BWE?
3. What conclusions can be drawn from these comparisons?
The articles I've read (see below):
Schreibfeder, J. (n.d.). Why is inventory turnover important? Effective Inventory Management, Inc. Retrieved on December 12, 2014, from
https://www.effectiveinventory.com/inventory-turnover-2/.
Ravichandran, N. (2008). Managing bullwhip effect: Two case studies, Journal of Advances in Management Research, 5(II).
The Ravichandran article presents two examples based on real life experiences where the BWE in supply chain is considerably reduced. Both examples relate to the consumer durables industry in India. The first example uses enterprise resource planning and vendor managed inventory as tools to reduce the BWE. The second example uses a modification of the classical inventory control policies to eliminate BWE.
In addition, I need help with finding more research items that would help supply chain researchers and managers to understand why some companies are able to contain BWE and others are not.