Comment by Dylan16807

It shouldn't be? Maybe I'm missing something, but shortages in factorio normally just flow through the chain without any amplification. There's no planner deciding to order extra to make up for last time or deciding to cut down excess inventory when there's less demand. Or to put it another way, all the buffers in a factorio factory stay the same size and the demand is always just trying to fill the buffer. This whiplash effect is caused by dynamic buffer sizes.