End of Game

Plot your Weekly Orders

Plot your Inventory and Backlog (back order is treated as
minus inventory and plot them in the same graph)

Calculate Total Cost at your Stage

Sum Costs over all Four Stages and plot the costs of each
stage over time

Please see slides 5, 6, 7 for examples of the graphs
Homework 2 Questions
1.
What, if anything, is unrealistic about this
game? Is reality more complicated or
less complicated?
2.
Why are there order, production and
shipping delays?
Discussion
3.
Did you find yourself “blaming” the
person upstream for your problems?
4.
What commonalities do you see in the
graphs for the different teams?
Discussion
5.
What pattern do you see? What is the
cost of this?
Value
Beer Game Orders Placed
114.592
105.0427
95.49333
85.944
76.39467
66.84533
57.296
47.74667
38.19733
28.648
19.09867
9.549333
0
0
Retailer
8.333333
16.66667
Wholes aler
25
Time
Distributor
33.33333
Brewery
41.66667
50
Val ue
Beer Ga me Ne t Inventory
76.5779 1
61.3667 6
46.1556 2
30.9444 7
15.7333 2
0.5 2217 89
-14.6889 7
-29.9001 1
-45.1112 6
-60.3224
-75.5335 5
-90.7446 9
-105 .955 8
0
Retai ler
$2885
8.3 3333 3
16.6666 7
Who lesa ler
25
Tim e
Distri buto r
33.3333 3
Brewery
41.6666 7
50
Total Cost
12000
10000
Manufacturer
Wholesaler
6000
Distributor
4000
Retailer
2000
Time (week)
25
22
19
16
13
10
7
4
0
1
$
8000