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Demonstrates infospace composition: the Wealth of Nations infospace is used as a discipline, applying Smith's economic framework as a lens to analyse modern supply chain management concepts. New example: examples/supply-chain-vsm/ - infospace.yaml binding WoN as discipline (../infospace-with-history) - 3 source documents: coordination mechanisms, capital & inventory, market structure (~400 words each, original content) - supply-chain-entity-schema-v1.0.md with WoN Concept required section - won-mapping-schema-v1.0.md with Conceptual Continuity rating - artifacts/won-reference/core-entities.md — 12 curated WoN entities for injection as discipline context - 8 hand-crafted entity files demonstrating LLM output format - 3 mapping files with full rationale and VSM inheritance chains - Viable: YES (5/5 thresholds) Key mappings demonstrated: Demand Signal → Effectual Demand (Strong, S2) Vendor-Managed Inventory → Division of Labour (Strong, S1/S2) Just-in-Time Inventory → Circulating Capital (Strong, S1/S3) Bullwhip Effect → Natural Price (Moderate, S2) Platform Intermediary → Merchant Capital (Strong, S2/S4) Monopsony Power → Combination of Masters (Strong, S3*) Platform fix: entity_parser.py now recognises ## Supply Chain Domain as a domain alias for ## Economic Domain, enabling composed infospaces to use their own domain section name. Tutorial §13 rewritten with real commands, real output, and the full mapping table from the demo. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Bullwhip Effect
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## Definition
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The amplification of demand variability as signals travel upstream in a
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supply chain, such that small fluctuations at the retail level produce
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progressively larger swings in orders at distributor, manufacturer, and
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supplier levels. The amplification arises from batching, safety stock
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additions at each tier, and the use of lagged signals rather than
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real-time demand data. The result is a chain that oscillates between glut
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and shortage even when end-consumer demand is relatively stable.
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## Source
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Coordination Mechanisms in Modern Supply Chains, §The Bullwhip Effect
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## Supply Chain Domain
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Coordination
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## VSM Assignment
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S2 — The bullwhip effect is a failure of S2 (the anti-oscillation
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coordination layer). A functioning S2 dampens variance; the bullwhip
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effect describes what happens when S2 is absent or degraded.
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## WoN Concept
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Natural Price as Central Price — Smith describes market price as oscillating
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around natural price as a centre of gravity. The bullwhip effect is an
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analogous oscillation: orders oscillate around actual demand rather than
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converging to it, because the information infrastructure required for
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convergence (transparent, real-time demand signals) is missing.
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