CASE STUDY CONCEPT: Supply chains of the Roman Empire had much in common with modern supply chains. Supply chains then and now require development of good mental models to understand them and keep them working well. Some ancient supply chains can also teach us lessons about sustainability that we
Nepal Earthquake Disaster Response Supply Chain
CASE STUDY CONCEPT: Using supply chain simulations for disaster response (DR) mission planning provides a framework for effective collaboration and coordination between logistics providers from Government, Military, NGO, and Commercial organizations. The more these organizations work together in a
Disaster Response Supply Chains: Flooding Scenario
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
Battle of Smolensk – 1941 Invasion of Russia
CASE STUDY CONCEPT: Strategy and Logistics are Two Sides of the Same Coin. "There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war." - Carl von Clausewitz The path taken by the German Army in its advance on Moscow in the summer