PSPS: project

Projekt:
Learning Evaluation of the Inventory Control Task with Simulation Games embedded in Learning Labs: An Experimental Approach with the Supply Net Game

The study investigates how learning processes could affect the quality of schedulers’ decisions in respect to inventory control in a logistic and production network. The aim is to address order and inventory oscillations in distributed production systems. This problem known as the Bullwhip or Forrester Effect in a supply chain is thought to gain in intensity with the globalization of the economy and the highly-paced technological advances causing market instability and boom & bust cycles. The approach of learning processes is grounded in the theories of systems thinking and learning organization. A long-term strategy of learning, for the manufacturers of the production network is proposed to solve locally as well as globally large order and inventory swings. The mechanism of learning transfer to the manufacturers of the production network is achieved by the repeated and combined use of the mental model elicitation method and the supply net game, which is a gaming environment developed under the scope of this study. The controlled experiment measures learning by the subjects’ responses on the questionnaire, total inventory costs achieved by the team on the supply net game and learning transfer from the supply net game to another gaming environment

Manager:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Scholz-Reiter

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Acknowledgement:
DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst German Academic Exchange Service
http://www.daad.de

Duration:
01.10 2004 bis 31.03 2008