You can think of business as a supply chain game between competing companies. To show what we mean, we offer this multiplayer, online supply chain game. This is not a game to merely entertain you, or help you memorize a few facts. It's a serious game to engage you, and help you learn real supply
Fantastic Corporation – Global Supply Chain
CASE STUDY CONCEPT: Challenges of Managing and Coordinating a Global Supply Chain. Fantastic Corporation designs and makes a fantastic new home entertainment center with widescreen HD TV and surround sound. It performs to demanding specifications and delivers impressive results. Customer demand
Q&A Video Book – Using SCM Globe Simulations
In an online Q&A session we got some good questions and demonstrated answers to those questions onscreen. Here are ten short clips with those answers. The title and description of each clip says what it’s about. You can start at the top of the playlist and the clips will play one after the
Supply Chain Design and Simulation Made Easy
In SCM Globe, supply chains are created by combinations of the four supply chain entities – Products, Facilities, Vehicles, Routes. So to build a model of any supply chain involves defining the characteristics of these four entities and then combining them to create the supply chain you are
Five Supply Chain Drivers
Supply chain capabilities are guided by the decisions you make regarding the five supply chain drivers. Each of these drivers can be developed and managed to emphasize responsiveness or efficiency depending on changing business requirements. As you investigate how a supply chain works, you learn
Sharing Your Simulation with Others
If you are doing well with your simulations and want to share it with other members of your team or with your course instructor, you can download your design and send it to anyone that you want to have a copy of your design.
Key Supply Chain Practices from Walmart
Sam Walton decided to build a company that would serve a mass market and compete on the basis of price. He did this by creating one of the world’s most efficient supply chains. The structure and operations of this company have been defined by the need to lower its costs and increase its
Getting Started – Just Jump in and Try It
Using SCM Globe - Jump in and Try it Out Using SCM Globe is all about designing supply chains and then simulating their operations to see how well they work. When problems occur you edit your supply chain design to fix those problems and run the simulation again to see the effect of your changes.