Source: Prof. Larry Navarre (Business) presented „Supply Chain Management: The Beer Game“ during the Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Speaker Series. Event hosted by the Provost & CETL.
Source: https://beergame.org/
The aim of this site is to introduce the idea and use of the so-called beer distribution game (or beergame) in management education.
The beergame is a role-play simulation game that lets students experience typical coordination problems of (traditional) supply chains, in which information sharing and collaboration does not exist. In more general terms, this supply chain represents any non-coordinated system in which problems arise due to lack of systemic thinking.
The Beer Game (or beer distribution game) was originally invented in the 1960’s by Jay Forrester at MIT as a result of his work on system dynamics. While the original goal of the simulation game was to research the effect of systems structures on the behavior of people (“structure creates behavior”), the game can be used to demonstrate the benefits of information sharing, supply chain management, and collaboration in the supply chain.
The beergame facilitation software is available for free under a Creative Commons license. You can use the software in whichever educational context you like, both within Universities or corporates.
https://beergame.org/software/download/
