The Beer Game Copyright by Professor John Sterman‚ MIT October 1984 Sources: http://www.sol-ne.org/pra/tool/beer.html The Fifth Discipline: Pg 27-54 Why play the ‘Beer Game’? Instructions for running the game Steps of the Game Outline for post-game discussion and tasks Supplies Checklist & Mock-up of the Game Board Bibliography CHARTS AND TABLES TO PRINT OUT: [only issue Table 1 and 2 at the onset of the game. Chart 1-3 to be distributed at the end of the game and before
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Player Manual for Beer game Last Modified Jan 7‚ 2011 Game Link: http://davinci.tamu.edu/beergame/ Objective of the Game: Is to satisfy the demand of the customer‚ while keeping the cost low. There is a cost for holding inventory and a cost for not satisfying demand (backorder). The demand for the product remains until it is satisfied i.e. backorder persists until it is fulfilled. Each player would be given an information card as shown below‚ The information card contains details regarding
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2012 DINSYS1 Beer Game Reflection In the game‚ I was assigned to be the factory. The objective of the game was to be able to supply products to the customers at the same time minimize inventory. In a nutshell‚ the demand of the customer should be supplied immediately by each entity in the supply chain. Being the factory‚ I felt that I was actually controlled by the other entities. It is through their orders that I should decide how many raw materials to get to be able to supply their needs. If
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Business Logistics Seminar 6 The risk pooling game Learning objectives: To analyse the inventory policy with different distribution systems. Activities before the seminar 1. Install the program given in AG. 2. Read instructions to play the game (p.3-12). Activities in the seminar Play the game several times before writing report. Write and upload a report in Aula GlobalMoodle with a summary of conclusions of the game (1 page as a maximum). Some guidelines are provided to write the report
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Barq’s Root Beer has been an effective product on many generations of lives. The drink has made many people crave for its sparkly taste for many years. The founder‚ Edward Barq‚ has made Root Beer impact many people’s lives and their culture significantly. Barq’s Root Beer‚ originally created in Biloxi‚ has impacted many people’s lives and their culture by being used for events like Mardi Gras parades‚ football games‚ and in homes. Barq’s Root Beer has been a very effective and impacting product
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Beer Game Assignment 1. The benefits of communication in a Supply Chain are variable and depend on many factors other than enhanced clarity and efficiency. Benefits not only come from effective communication but from coordination and the decisions derived from useful information. Every node in a supply chain network has a significant influence over the decisions made by others pertaining to real demand. These decisions‚ in turn‚ affect the entire supply chain and distort the information as it travels
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Simulation game (Beer Distribution Game) to understand the actions of simple and widely use of this system in the Supply Chain Management (SCM). The Beer Game was developed in the 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School of Management (Sterman‚1989; Senge‚1992)‚ it has been successful to attract the attention of SCM practitioners and academics. The layout of the Beer Distribution Game (BDG) is illustrated in figure 1 below. Figure 1 Beer Distribution Game Layout
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* Introduction: The beer game is a simulation first developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in the 1960s. This game was made in other to experiment how real organisations functions‚ where the consequences of every decisions play out as clearly as possible in the game as they would in a real organisation (Senge‚ 1990). Narayanan Arunachalam (2006) described the game as a popular classroom exercise for business schools conceived at MIT with the primary purpose
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Name: Shabei Qian Team #: 15 Position: Retailor Beer Game Report 1. For the first 3 weeks I just ordered the weekly demand because the demand was low and we had enough inventory. When there was a spike and we had potential stock out‚ I realized that I needed to hold more safety stock‚ I just ordered 2*weekly demand for each week. When there was a back order‚ I ordered the # of back order plus weekly demand. For the first 3 weeks I just ordered the weekly demand because the demand
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BSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BSC LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Programme Overview The BSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management programme offered by the School of Business at SIM University (UniSIM) aims to develop human capital and talent to meet the needs of the industry. This is the first undergraduate programme dedicated to the study of logistics and supply chain management to be offered by a Singapore university. Partnering with the Singapore
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