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Proposal of a Beer Distribution Game Considering Waste Management and the Bullwhip Effect

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Serious Games (JCSG 2020)

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The beer distribution game is a role-playing board game that also helps people learn about the importance of supply chain management. However, the game does not include the major difficulties in managing food and beverages supply chains. Food and beverages are assigned expiration or best-before date. If these goods cannot be sold within the period of the expiration or best-before date, they are wasted. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to extend the beer distribution game for incorporating these issues and to investigate the effects of the issues with playing the refined game. So, we set a time limit for products in the beer distribution game and include a rule that the products will be considered wasted after the time limit. We subsequently examined the effect of the time limit on food supply chain management. As a result of a preliminary game experiment, we find that the back order is highest at the distributors. Stock is the largest at the factory. Wholesalers and factories cause excessive waste. If the expiration date has passed, delivery is not possible, and the items will therefore be wasted. Furthermore, items will not reach the end consumer. In addition, higher inventory and waste are generated upstream. This result reflects the actual situation in the real world food and beverage industry.

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  1. Department of Food Environment Economics, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1-1-1, Sakuragaoka, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 156-0054, Japan

    Mizuho Sato

  2. Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University, 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 223-8526, Japan

    Masaru Nakano

  3. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, 5-10-1 Fuchinobe, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa, 252-5258, Japan

    Hajime Mizuyama

  4. Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Moltkestr. 30, 76133, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Christoph Roser

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  1. Falmouth University, Penryn, UK

    Minhua Ma

  2. Staffordshire University, Stoke-On-Trent, UK

    Bobbie Fletcher

  3. Multimedia Communications Lab - KOM, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  4. KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Södertälje, Stockholms Län, Sweden

    Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

  5. Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Tim Marsh

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Sato, M., Nakano, M., Mizuyama, H., Roser, C. (2020). Proposal of a Beer Distribution Game Considering Waste Management and the Bullwhip Effect. In: Ma, M., Fletcher, B., Göbel, S., Baalsrud Hauge, J., Marsh, T. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12434. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61814-8_6

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