A Simulation Exercise to Illustrate the Impact of an Enterprise System on a Service Supply Chain

INFORMS Transactions on Education

Edward G. Anderson, Jr.¹  Douglas J. Morrice¹  James S. Dyer¹  James L. Ritchie-Dunham² 

[1] Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Red McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712;Psychology Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

关键词: enterprise system;    teaching supply chain management;    service supply chain;    simulation;    telecommunications;   

DOI  :  10.1287/ited.7.3.201

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: INFORMS

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, we present a computer-based simulation exercise designed to help students understand the impact of an enterprise system on business performance in a service supply chain. The particular service supply chain simulated in the exercise is a wireless telecommunications firm. In this exercise, students perform simulations to experience managing the supply chain of the telecommunications firm with and without an enterprise system. The simulator tracks their business performance. Then the results are used as the basis of discussion in a subsequent debriefing session. We describe the educational goals of the simulation exercise and how the exercise can be structured in order to achieve these goals. The latter is illustrated by the use of the simulation exercise in a master's level supply chain management course in the Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. The simulator includes realistic details. In fact, it is based on the extensive consulting experiences of the firs...

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