2. GAMEPLAY
a) Strategy employed. Decisions made individually and collectively
inventory in relation to demand from downstream partners.
We have well-versed many rounds in game and located it's tough to manage and
direct. Once vie, it will be compel to arrange and anticipate earlier understanding
every member’s functioning and time taken to method to higher calculate the amount
of the raw materials which will be coming up with. First level is for novice during
which the shoppers continue waiting and obtain pissed off once their orders aren't
consummated. While the second level is for consultants during which customers when
obtaining pissed off not sit up for order fulfillment. After going these rounds, we've
come upon the answer with minimum postponement that is given below: Here area
unit the graphical representations of order position at varied stages.The graphs on top
of are generated from the information collected from the game and show the impact
on the supply chain. The subsequent explains the assorted word of the sport.The new
client orders increase just the once at the start and features a long lasting result on the
whole client order. The total client order could be a combination of the accumulative
empty orders and also the new client order. The inventories graph presents the number
of things ordered by the provider and the way the inventory affects the dimensions of
order. The Shipments Graph illustrates clearly the time distinction between the orders
and shipments, that indicate the delay that happens attributable to the provision supply
chain. Based on the graph 2.1, we can clearly see that, the customer order had been
changed weeks to weeks. So, our plan to solve this issues was, we plan to increase our
inventory in stage of week 1 to week 4. For example, we will be increasing the order
constantly from retailer to factory. We plot this strategy to stable the inventory and
the cost so, it wouldn't increase too much. Based on the graph 2.1, we have more
stock but we used our strategy which is reducing the order to 1 from week 16 so, from
this we can avoid the order from reduce to 0 because the 0 order strategy will affect
our graph . so, we have avoid using the 0 order strategy by ordering 1.
Graph 2.1
b) What resulted from your decision?
This rule was mostly what formed the sport and influenced the ends up in terms of
inventory and back orders. The retailer have been very substantial sensible start
within the game with a decent record in inventories of twelve units until week four. At
the same time, The factory had started with a listing of twelve units that remained a
similar until week of two. This was for the most important part because of vast
demands from the distributor. The works but started experiencing several inventories
at week eight. Besides that, the wholesaler and distributor had been maintained their
inventory till week 1 to week 2. The retailer had increased the demand on week 3
caused the wholesaler and distributor to faced the back order. The wholesaler had
been facing lots of back orders in the week of 4 to 6. However, in week 7 the retailer
decrease the demand caused the wholesaler’s back order to be less. In the week 9, the
wholesaler received 40 units that had been ordered in the week of 5 from the
distributor caused the back order to be cleared. On the other hand, the wholesaler had
increased the demand at the week of 4 and the distributor struggle to maintain the
back order. Although the demand had increased in week 4, the wholesaler had
decrease the demand at week 6 to 9. The distributor had managed to maintained or
cleared the back order at week 11. Based on the table 2.2, the factory had most
inventory compared to distributor, wholesaler and retailer at the end of the week 24
which is 1599 units. The retailer had the most less inventory which is 49 units.
Table 2.2
c) Did you meet your objective(s)? Why?
Yes because our team plan to reduce the back orders and tried very hard to maintain
the inventory until the end of the week 24. Although, the distributor and wholesaler
had been struggle in the week 3 until week 9, they managed to ensure the back order
to be cleared and try to maintain their inventory until the end of week 24. Our team
members help each other to support the customer demand and try to reduce the back
orders that our team members faced during the game. Based on the graph of
wholesaler and distributor, the back order of the wholesaler and distributor had been
increase in week of 5 to 6 but we can clearly see that they managed to reduce the back
orders in the week of 7 to 10. In week 11, the wholesaler and distributor has no back
order but they had more inventory after they cleared the back order. The factory also
have more inventory around 1600 units but the retailer had managed to balance the
inventory. So, our team members had succeeded to reach our goal in making the back
order empty until the end of week 24.
Status Distributor
Status Wholesaler
Status Factory