Hello lizardnation-ga,
Simulations in business education are getting more and more popular. I
was able to find logistics related simulation games from a variety of
academic and business sources. Most of the high profile programs seem
to have come out of academic settings. Some of these are now available
on the web. Others may be available only in academic settings. There
are also some products that are available commercially. I noticed that
business education workshops and executive education programs
frequently emphasize that they offer simulations as part of the
program.
You said you weren?t quite sure what you were looking for. I hope that
the resources I?ve collected will meet your needs. Please don?t
hesitate to ask for clarification to make sure you get exactly what
you need.
Best wishes for your projects.
~ czh ~
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LOGISTICS EDUCATION SIMULATIONS
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http://www.ilmg.com/
http://www.ipe.liu.se/rwg/ilmg/ilmg.htm
International Logistics Management Game
The current Version 2.2 of the Game is mainly intended to be run on a
local area network. A new version (Version 3.0) is currently being
developed encompassing even more advanced communication features.
***** See link for Academic Cooperation for conditions for using the
game. It is not clear whether the game is available exclusively for
academic use.
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http://www.hp.com/education/news/itsm020828c.html
Control-ITŪ simulation is an industry-unique simulation that allows
participants to understand the process methods of IT Service
Management (ITSM). Central to this learning experience is a simulated
revenue-generating environment in which various injected problems
demonstrate service issues between an IT department and their
customers.
The Control-ITŪ simulation has been developed for groups of 12 to 16
participants, each of whom is given a role in the simulation. The
simulation situation involves three different, independent
organizations: the Assembly companies, Logistics Ltd and a Supplier.
The performance of the Assembly companies depends largely on the
capability of Logistics Ltd to deliver the promised logistics services
in a timely and effective manner. Since each organization needs to
make profit, the delivery of the services also have to be done in an
efficient manner.
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http://www.simulations.co.uk/index.html
Hall Marketing
This site provides information about a comprehensive range of Computer
Business Simulations and Experiential Exercises for Management
Development and Business Training and information about why and how to
use them to enhance learning and management performance.
http://www.simulations.co.uk/RANGEFLY.HTM
The Range of Simulations
Currently we have some three dozen computer simulations and
experiential exercises available for management development and are
adding several each year.
***** This company offers a large collection of business simulations
for a wide range of target audiences.
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http://iprod.auc.dk/x-proj/gamespm/www-games.html
Games for Production Management
A Special Interest Group under the IFIP Working Group 5.7 on
Integrated Production Management
Coordinator: Professor Jens O. Riis
Department of Production, Aalborg University, Denmark
The Special Interest Group seeks to promote the development and use of
simulation games for production management in education and in
industry. One of its activities is workshops, another the
establishment of a catalogue of games as a means for dissemination of
relevant games.
The aim of this catalogue is to help educators and industrialists
become aware of games in the area of production management and to
easily acquire further information.
As each game will pertain to a specific pedagogical situation and time
frame and address a specific set of issues related to production
management, we have made the catalogue accessible from a number of
characteristic game features. Also it is possible to go through the
whole catalogue and to search for a game via keywords.
Supply chain - Logistics
-- Cil-Sim Gaming Framework Opt_Sim & Dic_Xim (#8)
-- Logi Game (#18)
-- A small supply chain game (#20)
-- Supply chain game (#23)
-- Logistics game (#31)
***** This site offers 30+ business simulations/games available from a
variety of sources. Click through to get a full description of the
game and the contact person for obtaining it.
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http://www.orie.cornell.edu/~jackson/distgame.html
The Distribution Game
Peter L. Jackson, John A. Muckstadt
School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
Cornell University
Sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation Synthesis
Coalition for Engineering Education.
http://www.orie.cornell.edu/~jackson/trucks.html
The Transportation Game
Peter L. Jackson, John A. Muckstadt
School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
Cornell University
Sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation Synthesis
Coalition for Engineering Education.
***** You can download all the files for these games available from
Cornell University.
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http://web.lemoyne.edu/~wright/manfgame.htm
THE IN-CLASS MANUFACTURING GAME
Salwa Ammar & Ronald Wright
Department of Business Administration
Le Moyne College
Syracuse, NY 13214
wright@mail.lemoyne.edu ammar@mail.lemoyne.edu
This game was designed to integrate levels of production planning and
show the relationship between them. The planning topics covered by the
game are aggregate planning, inventory theory, lot sizing, productions
scheduling and materials requirement planning. The theory of each
topic has been covered individually. The In-Class Manufacturing Game
provides students with the opportunity to engage in production
planning at all these levels, to see how decisions at one level
interact with those at other levels, and to experience the challenges
involved in making a production operation run efficiently.
The latest version of the game is a computer simulation created using
Visual Basic in Excel. A free version of the software and copies of
the game packet are available to college faculty by contacting Salwa
Ammar or Ron Wright.
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http://littlefield.responsive.net:8000/littlefield/littlefieldHome.html
Littlefield Technologies is a factory simulator that allows students
to compete with each other over the web while developing operations
management skills. It has been successfully used at the graduate and
undergraduate level by thousands of students at more than a dozen
universities.
Littlefield Technologies was developed by Sunil Kumar and Samuel C.
Wood at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Stanford has
licensed the simulator to Responsive Learning Technologies, which has
implemented it in a way that multiple universities can access it over
the web. No software needs to be installed to use the simulator. Both
the instructor and the students access their pages over the internet
using standard browsers.
***** It is not clear from the information on the website whether you
have to be associated with a university to be able to access this
game.
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http://factory.isye.gatech.edu/vfl/research/
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Virtual Factory Laboratory
Distributed Supply Chain Modeling
http://factory.isye.gatech.edu/vfl/research/supply_chain_game.php
Supply Chain Game
The Supply Chain Game is designed to operate as a web-based
application that keeps track of the current "state" of the supply
chain. Students see the impact of their decisions, for better or
worse, and learn about supply chain dynamics.
Contact: leon.mcginnis@isye.gatech.edu
***** It is not clear whether this game might be available for use by
anyone other than students enrolled in this program.
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http://www.sics.se/tac/page.php?id=13
TAC SCM Game Description
Supply chain management is concerned with planning and coordinating
the activities of organizations across the supply chain, from raw
material procurement to finished goods delivery. In today?s global
economy, effective supply chain management is vital to the
competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises as it directly impacts
their ability to meet changing market demands in a timely and cost
effective manner. With annual worldwide supply chain transactions in
the trillions of dollars, the potential impact of performance
improvements is tremendous.
TAC-03 was designed to capture many of the challenges involved in
supporting dynamic supply chain practices, while keeping the rules of
the game simple enough to entice a large number of competitors to
submit entries. The game has been designed jointly by a team of
researchers from the e-Supply Chain Management Lab at Carnegie Mellon
University and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS).
The full specification is available as a PDF here.
http://www.sics.se/tac/TAC03_spec.PDF
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http://compsimgames.about.com/library/atoz/blatoz_business.htm
Computer Simulation Games
Business Simulation Games A-Z
Business sim games cover a wide range of topics, from building cars to
managing a fast food place, to building a city on the moon to going to
Hollywood. Whatever you want to manage or build, there is probably a
business sim game for it! Below is a list of business sim titles and
links to resources on them.
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LOGISTICS SIMULATIONS ? ARTICLES AND RESOURCES
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http://opsandfulfillment.com/ar/fulfillment_school/
Operations & Fulfillment, Jul 1, 2002
Out of School
There are three distinct types of distance learning in logistics:
interactive (instructor-led/tutored), computer-based (self-study), and
simulation learning tools. Check the sample site listings above and on
page 35 to launch your exploration of the various programs available.
***** This is an excellent starting point for exploring all three
methods of learning. The section on Simulation Learning was the source
for several of the resources listed above.
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http://www.lionhrtpub.com/ee/summer03/game.html
SUMMER 2003
Computers in the Classroom make Learning a Game
Today's generation of college students grew up with computer games, so
it should come as no surprise that university professors have turned
to the genre to illuminate classroom concepts. But to ISyE faculty,
computer games are more than just a fun way to learn. These games have
an ability to illustrate models that is far superior to conventional
classroom techniques.
***** This article discusses several of the simulation games I?ve listed above.
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http://hulia.haifa.ac.il/Eng/links.html
The "Hulia" is a training tool built as a group computerized game.
***** The Links page offers a variety of resources for simulations and games.
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