Bullwhip and the social cost of carbon

Bullwhip
Social cost of carbon
Supply chain
Net present value
Proportional OUT
2025
.Conference presentation
Third Operations and Analytics Workshop, May 19th-20th, Esade Business School, Barcelona, SPAIN
Author

M. Ma, S.M. Disney, Q. Li, B. Shen

Published

May 20, 2025

Abstract

We study the impact of bullwhip on the social cost of carbon. We reveal that smoothing the production orders with the proportional order-up-to policy is able to reduce the carbon emitted by the supply chain as measured by the social cost of carbon framework.