Objective: This exercise will teach you how to model a sequential supply chain process with multiple stocks. You will learn how constraints in one part of the system (like a lack of components) can create bottlenecks that impact the final output. 👟

Scenario: You are the manager of a shoe factory. Your factory assembles shoes from component kits. First, you receive component kits from a supplier. Second, you assemble these kits into finished shoes. Finally, you sell the finished shoes to customers. Your goal is to build a simulation model to understand how your inventory of components and finished products will change over 100 days.

Objective: This exercise will teach you how to model a sequential supply chain process with multiple stocks. You will learn how constraints in one part of the system (like a lack of components) can create bottlenecks that impact the final output. 👟

Scenario: You are the manager of a shoe factory. Your factory assembles shoes from component kits. First, you receive component kits from a supplier. Second, you assemble these kits into finished shoes. Finally, you sell the finished shoes to customers. Your goal is to build a simulation model to understand how your inventory of components and finished products will change over 100 days.

Objective: This exercise will teach you how to model a sequential supply chain process with multiple stocks. You will learn how constraints in one part of the system (like a lack of components) can create bottlenecks that impact the final output. 👟

Scenario: You are the manager of a shoe factory. Your factory assembles shoes from component kits. First, you receive component kits from a supplier. Second, you assemble these kits into finished shoes. Finally, you sell the finished shoes to customers. Your goal is to build a simulation model to understand how your inventory of components and finished products will change over 100 days.

This is a rich picture showing the components of AbbVie Pharmaceuticals’ supply chain logistics to contrast the current and proposed states of logistics performance with specific focus on digital technologies

Objective:
This exercise will help you learn how a supply chain works step by step. You will see how a shortage of materials in one stage can slow down production and affect the final number of products available for customers.

Scenario:
You are the manager of a shoe factory. First, you receive shoe component kits from a supplier. Then, you use these kits to make shoes. After that, the finished shoes are sold to customers. Your job is to build a simulation model to see how the number of component kits and finished shoes changes over 100 days.

This is a rich picture showing the components of a manufacturing system. The client is losing money and is trying to discover why. This is a theoretical picture just to demonstrate how rich pictures can be developed in Insight Maker

Feeding product to a packing Machine.

Instructing Model

Sterman, J. (2002). System Dynamics: systems thinking and modeling for a complex world.