The Beer Game

beer game  The traditional aim of the Beer Game is to minimize the total cost for everyone in the supply chain by maintaining low stocks but nevertheless managing to What is The Beer Game? · 1 People do not understand how their actions affect others · 2 So they tend to blame each other for problems · 3 Becoming

Classification A simulation game created to demonstrate some key principles of supply chain management It was made in the early 1960's by some professors at The game simulates a supply chain from a beer producer through the distributor, wholesale and retail to the final consumer The game's objective is to create an

The beer distribution game is an educational game that is used to experience typical coordination problems of a supply chain process  The object of the game is to powerfully demonstrate, through simulation, how inter-related and inter-dependant a real supply chain is and the effect that people