CASE STUDY CONCEPT: Challenges of Disaster Response (DR) Supply Chains and Humanitarian Logistics - decentralized decision-making in unpredictable environments. You are in charge of coordinating a major disaster response effort. You are working with a geographically dispersed team of people
Multiplayer Serious Supply Chain Game
There are two kinds of games: Entertainment games -- games for having fun Serious games -- games for learning real-world skills Entertainment games and serious games differ in significant ways. In entertainment games simulations are created for entertainment, so modeling the real world is
All Supply Chain Models are Approximations
One can make very precise measurements (using seconds, millimeters, and micrograms) for operating a machine tool making engine parts. And one can make precise measurements (using minutes, meters, and grams) for operating a facility such as a factory or a warehouse. But what level of precision is
Cincinnati Seasonings
CASE STUDY CONCEPT: The central challenge of most supply chains is to meet product demand (be responsive), while also reducing inventory and operating costs (be efficient). You will learn about this challenge as the supply chain manager for a company called “Cincinnati Seasonings” in Cincinnati,
A Supply Chain “Immune System”
A supply chain is an organization composed of many different individual companies that each have their own businesses yet all work together to make and deliver products to different markets and customers. It's one thing to talk about securing the operations of a single company, but what about a
Java Furniture Company – Indonesia
CASE STUDY CONCEPT: Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) with Simulations to Support Business Growth. You connect your laptop to the boardroom projector, and the company's supply chain appears on the big screen at the front of the room. People stop talking and turn to look at what you are
Operation Inherent Rescue – Humanitarian Supply Chains in Action
Imagine there is suddenly a real opportunity to stop the fighting in Syria. After months of tense negotiations and years of carnage, all the parties reach an agreement. But unless this agreement is implemented quickly it will collapse into chaos once again. The diplomats and politicians have reached
Simulations Create a Winning Supply Chain
Gonzalo Florez-Giraldo is working on his degree in global supply chain management and logistics at Houston Community College. A degree in supply chain management opens up a lot of opportunities, because Houston is a hub of commerce with its busy seaport and its location at the center of a