bullwhip effect
C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The amplification of small demand swings as they ripple up a supply chain.
A minor dip in retail orders left the factory drowning in cancelled components a month later, a textbook bullwhip effect.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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