Beer Game Results 1
Beer Game Results
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Muddy Charles Inventory
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Muddy Charles Inventory
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Muddy Charles Inventory
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Muddy Charles Inventory
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Muddy Charles Inventory --- total cost = $3601
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Muddy Charles wholesaler orders
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Muddy Charles distributor orders
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Muddy Charles orders
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Ali baba retailer inventory
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Ali baba wholesaler inventory
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Ali baba distributor inventory
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Ali baba factory inventory
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Ali Baba Amazon Inventory -- total cost = $2219
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Ali Baba Amazon Orders
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Project Ideas
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Strategies
• Work in teams – we might enlist an LGO student(s)
• You propose your own project – Research
– Start-up
– Other connections
• We propose project – Not necessarily clear cut
– You are still the “entrepreneur”
– Take it as far as you want
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Air Liquide
• Explore feasibility of delivering Oxygen to hospitals in developing countries
– Choice of technology
– Design of supply chain; make-buy choices
– Business model, including financing
– Cameroon and Ghana are possible target markets
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ARTI- Tanzania
• How to improve the operation of new production line for Ag-waste charcoal briquettes
– Grinder
– Mixer
– Extruder
• Likely to require consideration of upstream and downstream operations
• D-Lab scale-up partner
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WeCycler
• As the business continues to expand, a project could:
– Look at how to achieve more efficient routing of vehicles
– Examine how to improve customer retention
• D-Lab scale-up partner
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Ghonsla
• Examine transportation of product (insulation panels) from manufacturing facility to sales region
• Focus on cost and time
• Likely to require consideration of upstream and downstream operations, which are linked by the transportation
• D-Lab scale-up partner
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Organic Waste processing with BSF
• Mapping of supply chain
• Make – Buy choices
• Cost modeling
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