Category Archives: Logistics

The simulation output files are not readable just as you see them. But I read them sucessfully with Notepad, perhaps the easiest and cheapest way to read them. You can read them with Word by making sure you are set to landscape and making the margins as large as possible. When you print them from notepad you may not get the page to break where you want it to, between the operations report and the financial report.  I think you can add a page break with the editor (Notepad) and get it to print OK.

Please give me feedback on the reports as the game goes on.  they are hard to change, but if all is going well I can have a stab at it later in the semester.

A few notes for the simulation.  I am going to post your starting reports.  I will send yours to your whole team via campus email.  Your team will be able to see current levels of materials and resources, and your last financial report, and this will help you make decisions about what to do.

REMEMBER THE DECISIONS ARE DUE BY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT.  One copy of sheet per team please.

This week on Monday and Wednesday we will try to accomplish two things.

• Submit and present cases.
• Learn something about forecasting from a quantitiative standpoint.

Friday we’ll continue with forecasting, and that will finish up Chapter 3. Then it is on to Chapter 4 the following week. I will pass out a small forecasting assignment you should do at home.

Also on Friday by midnight, your team should submit your decisions for the trial week of the simulation game. On Monday I will pass out your status reports that you should use to plan your decisions. Remember, this is a trial week, to get the pattern down. The real thing will start after that. More discussion during the week.