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Summary This paper stems from a cross-fertilization research project aimed at exploring to which extent modeling methodologies and tools that are used in engineering fields could be suitable to solve management problems. A powerful object-oriented modeling language used in those contexts, Modelica, is carefully presented, and its most innovative features are discussed. Then, a very demanding management...
The Bullwhip Effect has a long research history: from the pioneering works of the 1960s to the most recent studies, many authors have tried to figure out the causes of this phenomenon and to propose management levers able to cope with it. It is quite interesting to observe that, even if analysed through an analytic approach, and therefore in a very objective way, there are heterogeneous interpretations...
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