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To get the paunchy ride of the Quartz Weekly Obsession for your inbox, we suggest the exhaust of Gmail or Apple Mail.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <![endif]--><!--[if mso | IE]> <div class="hidden"><![endif]--></p> <div class="first obsession-card auto has-content"> <div class="obsession-card-content"> <h2 class="obsession-card-title">Provide chain whiplash</p> <hr /> </h2> <p class="first"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyshih/2020/03/04/covid-19-shortage-gaming-and-the-toilet-paper-supply-chain/?sh=1ba4447d2345" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lavatory paper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><a href="https://qz.com/1999046/why-its-so-hard-to-get-a-new-bike-right-now/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=quartz-obsession&utm_content=d118db86-1d55-11ec-ae95-6eb27aa2d4b5" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bicycles</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><a href="https://qz.com/2004569/the-global-chip-shortage-can-be-explained-by-the-bullwhip-effect/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=quartz-obsession&utm_content=d118db86-1d55-11ec-ae95-6eb27aa2d4b5" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Semiconductors</span></a>.<span style="font-weight: 400;"> All the absolute most practical plot by the last two years, the sector has faced a series of shortages that</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in flip disrupted the provide of every little thing from autos to gaming consoles to family dwelling equipment. The pandemic, finally, is basically accountable. However there’s an financial phenomenon that helps expose how issues obtained so circulation so snappy: the bullwhip halt.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The bullwhip halt describes how miniature changes in quiz for obvious goods can fabricate disruptions that ripple by a provide chain, inflicting bigger and bigger headaches. With mass layoffs, authorities stimulus spending, the upward push of distant work, and an ever-changing panorama of lockdowns and re-openings, the global economy has viewed wide shifts in particular person spending since 2019. The bullwhip halt has made those wild quiz swings all but impossible for producers to defend up with.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s now not apt an outbreak narrate. Economists had been exploring the penalties of the bullwhip halt since the 1960s, and it’s a relentless source of misfortune for provide chain managers. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whips on the ready, we’re occurring a provide chain adventure.</span></p> <p>🐦 <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2Femails%2Fquartz-obsession%2F2064752&via=qz%20obsession&text=The%20bullwhip%20effect%3A%20Snapping%20supply%20chains" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tweet this!</a></p> <p class="last">🌐 <a href="http://qz.com/email/quartz-obsession/2064752/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=quartz-obsession&utm_content=d118db86-1d55-11ec-ae95-6eb27aa2d4b5" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Look this e mail on the gain</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="obsession-card auto has-content"> <div class="obsession-card-content"> <div class="obsession-card-kicker">By the digits</div> <p class="first"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/these-industries-are-hit-hardest-by-the-global-chip-shortage-122854251.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>169: </b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Industries struggling from the global chip scarcity, in line with a Goldman Sachs estimate</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.dbusiness.com/daily-news/the-semiconductor-shortage-implications-for-the-global-economy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>1%: </b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Estimated US GDP narrate erased in 2021 thanks to the chip scarcity</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-is-there-a-bicycle-shortage-its-got-a-lot-to-do-with-why-fireworks-are-scarce-11622751152" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>78%: </b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Amplify in bicycle gross sales in Q1 of 2021 when put next to 38% in Q1 of 2020</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-toilet-paper-shortage-panic/2020/04/07/1fd30e92-75b5-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>$1.4 billion: </b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Quantity Individuals spent on lavatory paper in the first four weeks of the pandemic—a 104% impact bigger from the identical duration a 300 and sixty five days earlier</span></p> <p class="last"><a href="https://www.livescience.com/37022-speed-of-sound-mach-1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>761 mph (1,225 km/h): </b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The velocity a bullwhip has to high-tail back and forth to interrupt the sound barrier</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="obsession-card auto has-content"> <figure class="obsession-hero"><figcaption>Reuters/Baz Ratne</figcaption><div class="obsession-hero-image" style="background-image: url(https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2020-11-30T223052Z_1602607604_RC2WDK9150HJ_RTRMADP_3_SUDAN-DAILY-LIFE.jpg?quality=80&strip=all);"></div> </figure> <div class="obsession-card-content"> <div class="obsession-card-kicker">EXPLAIN IT LIKE I’M 5</div> <h2 class="obsession-card-title">What is the bullwhip halt?</p> <hr /> </h2> <p class="first"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The bullwhip halt describes how quiz indicators get exaggerated as they high-tail back and forth by a provide chain. To sign the absolute most practical plot it works, it helps to take into consideration about a key facts: </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Varied of us contain watch over diverse segments of a provide chain.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The manager of a convenience store works individually from the owner of a wholesale food distributor who works individually from the ground manager at a Doritos factory.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Those of us frequently don’t keep in touch successfully.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> A factory manager has limited records about gross sales at individual stores, and a store manager knows minute about production on the factory.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Everybody is making an strive to fastidiously steadiness their stock of goods.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> No one needs to notify or fabricate too grand of a appropriate, but no person needs to maintain too minute, either.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The bullwhip halt happens due to managers are inclined to overreact to changes in quiz. A classic example comes from Stanford Industry School professors Hau Lee, V. Padmanabhan, and Seungjin Whang, who </span><a href="https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-bullwhip-effect-in-supply-chains/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">coined the phrase “bullwhip halt” in a 1997 paper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> describing a head-scratching discovery at Proctor & Gamble. Firm executives seen immense swings in wholesale orders for diapers, although retail gross sales had been rather right.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The executives realized that retail stores had been seeing miniature fluctuations in diaper gross sales. When gross sales went up a smidge, the shops would expose extra diapers from their wholesale suppliers to defend up away from running out of stock. When gross sales fell, shops would lower their orders. The narrate turned into, shops would possibly possibly well react to, order, a 10% impact bigger in diaper gross sales by ordering 20% more diapers, due to they had been petrified of running out of stock. The wholesalers, seeing a unexpected 20% leap in orders, would possibly possibly well awe and elevate their diaper orders to Proctor & Gamble by 35%. P&G would then procure itself ramping up diaper production by 50% to meet a essential spike in expose quantity—although quiz hadn’t if truth be told modified grand.</span></p> <p class="last"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Correct as a cowboy can pass his wrist about a inches and ship his bullwhip flying plenty of feet by the air, customers can replace their spending habits apt rather bit and situation off factories to wildly replace their production.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="obsession-card quiz "> <figure class="obsession-hero"><figcaption>Stern/Wikimedia Commons</figcaption><div class="obsession-hero-image" style="background-image: url(https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Bullwhip_effect.png);"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="obsession-card-kicker">Pop quiz</div> <h2 class="obsession-hero-title">Which of those is NOT a situation off of the bullwhip halt?</h2> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </figure> <p><input type="radio" name="quiz-3" id="quiz-3-answer-radio-correct" class="obsession-quiz-radio-correct"><input type="radio" name="quiz-3" id="quiz-3-answer-radio-1" class="obsession-quiz-radio-wrong"><input type="radio" name="quiz-3" id="quiz-3-answer-radio-2" class="obsession-quiz-radio-wrong"><input type="radio" name="quiz-3" id="quiz-3-answer-radio-3" class="obsession-quiz-radio-wrong"><label for="quiz-3-answer-radio-correct" class="obsession-quiz-answer correct">Overcommunication between shops and suppliers</label><label for="quiz-3-answer-radio-1" id="qz-3-answer-label-1" class="obsession-quiz-answer wrong">Wrong predictions about future gross sales</label><label for="quiz-3-answer-radio-3" id="qz-3-answer-label-3" class="obsession-quiz-answer wrong">Free return policies</label><label for="quiz-3-answer-radio-2" id="qz-3-answer-label-2" class="obsession-quiz-answer wrong">Natural fluctuations in quiz</label></p> <div class="obsession-quiz-message-correct"><strong>Sincere.</strong> Customarily, the narrate is a lack of conversation.</div> <div class="obsession-quiz-message-wrong"><strong>Outrageous.</strong> Fluctuations in quiz are the root situation off of the bullwhip halt. 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Humans had been snapping strands of leather at Mach 1 about 5,000 years sooner than Chuck Yeager </span><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/chuck-yeager-1st-to-break-sound-barrier-dies-at-97" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reached the rate of sound</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in his Bell X-1 rocket aircraft in 1947.</span></h2> </div> </div> <div class="obsession-card auto has-content"> <div class="obsession-card-content"> <div class="obsession-card-kicker">PERSON OF INTEREST</div> <h2 class="obsession-card-title">The father of the “Forrester halt”</p> <hr /> </h2> <p class="first"><span style="font-weight: 400;">MIT administration professor Jay Wright Forrester turned into </span><a href="https://www.sccgltd.com/featured-articles/distortion-in-the-supply-chain-beware-the-bullwhip-effect/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the first particular person to portray the bullwhip halt</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. (He didn’t attain up with a catchy title for it, so for a protracted time it turned into simply identified because the “Forrester halt.”) However Forrester’s foray into administration science turned into more of a aspect venture for a man whose necessary narrate turned into shaping the trend and exhaust of computer programs.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Within the ’40s and ’50s, Forrester headed MIT’s Project Whirlwind, which created </span><a href="http://museum.mit.edu/150/21" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">one of many first digital computer programs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Forrester is </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/luisromero/2016/11/18/a-genius-has-left-us-his-name-was-jay-w-forrester/?sh=705eb3e21c38" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">credited with key discoveries</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that ended in the invention of semiconductors and random get entry to memory (RAM).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Within the ’60s, Forrester primarily based the self-discipline of “diagram dynamics,” which venerable computer programs to model advanced programs. His first case gape turned into the sector of enterprise, which led him to post the book </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Industrial Dynamics</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 1961 and portray the bullwhip halt. In 1969, he moved on to modeling cities and wrote </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Metropolis Dynamics</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which strongly </span><a href="https://www.polygon.com/videos/2021/4/1/22352583/simcity-hidden-politics-ideology-urban-dynamics" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">influenced the trend of <em>Sim Metropolis</em></span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p class="last"><span style="font-weight: 400;">His 1971 book </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">World Dynamics</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> laid the theoretical groundwork for the </span><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/limits-growth-book-launched-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">controversial bestseller </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Limits to Mumble</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which warned humanity’s unsustainable helpful resource consumption would lead to severe environmental penalties. The book, and Forrester’s units, faced severe pushback at e-newsletter—but their neatly-liked message proved depressingly prescient.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="obsession-card auto has-content"> <figure class="obsession-hero"><figcaption>Giphy</figcaption><div class="obsession-hero-image" style="background-image: url(https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/giphy-1-4.gif);"></div> </figure> <div class="obsession-card-content"> <div class="obsession-card-kicker">Try this!</div> <h2 class="obsession-card-title">The beer game</p> <hr /> </h2> <p class="first"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1961, Jay Forrester developed the “beer game” as a technique to model the bullwhip halt for students. It’s now </span><a href="http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/SDG/beergame.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a neatly-liked teaching tool in enterprise colleges</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, where professors hope their pupils will be taught to defend up away from growing provide chain chaos after they change into managers at valuable corporations.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Within the game, every player controls a special a part of the provide chain for beer: the retailer, the wholesaler, the regional distributor, and the manufacturer. Every flip, potentialities take a obvious quantity of beer from the retailer, and each player puts in an expose for more beer from their provider. The difficulty is, orders like plenty of turns to advance, and no person knows what’s going down in another a part of the provide chain. Inevitably, miniature changes in beer consumption lead to awe ordering, shortages of beer, and big spikes and crashes in beer production.</span></p> <p class="last"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You possibly would possibly possibly well be a part of an memoir and play a paunchy model of the game free of price the exhaust of </span><a href="https://beergameapp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Beer Sport App</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or get a neatly-liked belief from </span><a href="https://www.sipm.com/game/beergame-demo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">this instant demo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Feeling suave? Field up </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxpgM8paegQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the passe college pen and paper model</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that Forrester created support in the ’60s.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="obsession-card auto has-content"> <div class="obsession-card-content"> <div class="obsession-card-kicker">Quotable</div> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Below tension, we focal point on managing our like a part of the diagram, making an strive to defend up our like costs low. And when the prolonged-term effects of our instant-sighted actions hit dwelling, we blame our customer for ordering erratically, and our provider for handing over slack. Determining how successfully-intentioned, appealing of us can fabricate an final result no person expected and no person needs is one of many profound classes of the game.”</span></h2> <p class="first last"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—John D. Sterman, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, describing the </span></i><a href="http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/SDG/beergame.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">surprisingly emotional ride of taking part in the beer game</span></i></a></p> </div> </div> <div class="obsession-card video has-content"> <figure class="obsession-hero"><figcaption>YouTube</figcaption><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNKPIOelTgA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></p> <div class="obsession-hero-image" style="background-image: url(https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screenshot-2021-09-24-125336-e1632502459603.jpg?quality=80&strip=all);"> <div class="play-button"></div> </div> <p></a></figure> <div class="obsession-card-content"> <div class="obsession-card-kicker">Look this!</div> <h2 class="obsession-card-title">Cracking the bullwhip</p> <hr /> </h2> <p class="first last"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You metropolis slickers would possibly possibly well now not perceive it, but there are a colossal quantity of ways to crack a bullwhip. On this early YouTube clip, competitive whip cracker Adam Winrich puts on an oddly captivating demonstration of a dozen diverse tactics.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="obsession-card poll "> <figure class="obsession-hero"><figcaption>Giphy</figcaption><div class="obsession-hero-image" style="background-image: url(https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Indianajoneswhip.gif);"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="obsession-card-kicker">Ballot</div> <h2 class="obsession-hero-title">What’s your popular crack of the whip?</h2> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </figure> <p><input type="checkbox" id="poll-10-vote-control" checked="checked"/></p> <div class="vote-btn"><a class="obsession-card-cta" href="https://polldaddy.com/poll/10927039/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here to vote</a></div> <div class="vote-options"><input type="radio" name="poll-10927039" id="poll-10927039-radio-50281578"/><input type="radio" name="poll-10927039" id="poll-10927039-radio-50281579"/><input 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