Digitization of Supply Chains as a Lever for Controlling Cash Flow Bullwhip: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Due to the new possibilities offered by digital technologies, more and more companies are embarking on a process of digitizing their supply chains. This dynamic seems to be the opportunity to analyse the impact that digital technologies may have on one of the phenomena that disrupt financial flows within supply chains, and that can alter the companies’ treasury, namely that of cash flow bullwhip (CFB). The results of the systematic literature review that was carried out allow to affirm that several technologies can contribute positively to limiting this phenomenon and this by acting on these operational causes, which are the reliability of forecasts, batch orders, the fluctuation in sales prices, rationing games, and lead times.