1. End of Game Plot your Weekly Orders Plot your Inventory and Backlog (back order is treated as minus inventory and plot them in the same graph) Calculate Total Cost at your Stage Sum Costs over all Four Stages and plot the costs of each stage over time Please see slides 5, 6, 7 for examples of the graphs

2. Homework 2 Questions 1. What, if anything, is unrealistic about this game? Is reality more complicated or less complicated? 2. Why are there order, production and shipping delays?

3. Discussion 3. Did you find yourself “blaming” the person upstream for your problems? 4. What commonalities do you see in the graphs for the different teams?

4. Discussion 5. What pattern do you see? What is the cost of this?

6. $2885