A MODEL WITH MULTI-DISTRIBUTED CENTER AND STOCHASTIC CONTROL OF BULLWHIP EFFECT IN SUPPLY CHAIN

Bull whip is an important parameter to determine that supply chain management is good or not. Applying stochastic control principle and a dynamic inventory model of supply chain with multi-distributed center based on literature¹, the bullwhip effect is restrained by taking the order as control variable. A simulation of petroleum distributed system is done, and the result shows that the bullwhip is reduced.