Managing Littlefield Technologies
MBA Program
Feb 2019
Objectives
• Your team has been appointed to manage operations at
Littlefield Technologies
• You start managing the factory on day 30 (you have the
first 30 days of history available to you)
• You have 330 simulated days (110 mins) to manage the
factory and generate cash (profit from sales – debt)
• 10 mins = 30 simulated days.
• The winning team is the team with the most cash at the
end of the game
Schedule
START PLAYING
30
simulated
days
STOP PLAYING
330 simulated days
Active simulation: decision-making
Simulation
initialised
Prepare an
action plan and submit
by 19 February
before the class
110 minutes
Choose:
•Reorder Point
•Reorder quantity
Choose:
•# of machines
•priority
Choose:
•Type of
contract
Choose:
• Type of pricing
contract
Choose:
•# of machines
Download Data
• Click the download button to
retrieve tab delimited text files,
which can be opened by many
applications.
• Choose Save and then open
with Excel, or Save As and
append .xls to the file name.
• Copy > Paste data columns to
a master worksheet for
analysis.
• Index by Day (except
inventory )
Making A Decision:
Additional Capacity
Read message,
enter password,
popup appears,
andAconfirm.
click edit data.

The Transaction History records
second popup
appears,
each A
successive
decision
with a
Read
thenclick ok.
To purchase
amessage,
machine,
enter
value
and
day index, parameter
close.
clickClick
on click
a station
icon
history,
description, to
and new value.
Note:
an edit
data button only appears if
double
check.
2
decisions are enabled for a given
parameter. It is never available when the
simulator is suspended or finished.
Preparation
• Action plan:
– Read Littlefield instructions
– Analyse the performance of your factory in the first 30 days of
operations
– Draw an operational plan for the next 330 days: Which decisions are you
going to take? In which order? When?
HAVE FUN!
AND….
GOOD LUCK!