Simulation-Based Education in Supply Chain and Project Management
A. Tzimerman, L. Dery, N. S. Balouka, I. Cohen, Y. T. Herer, A. Shtub, INFORMS Tutorials in Operational Research, Bridging Data and Decisions (October 27, 2014)
Abstract
Simulation-Based Education is part of the new teaching
methods that have emerged over the past century, implemented in a variety of
domains, and growing constantly ever since. It is an effective and dynamic
educational tool that offers several advantages over traditional educations
techniques. We have designed two state-of-the-art simulators, one within the
supply chain management domain and the other within the project management
domain. Both of these domains are of major concerns in operations management.
This tutorial demonstrates the use of these simulators as a teaching tool and
as a decision support system. Using the Supply Chain Simulator we show how it
can be used to demonstrate the importance of using inventory position and not
local inventory (net inventory) in the presence of lead times. Using the
Project Team Builder we demonstrate the issues that need to be managed when
trying to develop a project plan that minimizes the project cost while ending
the project on or before a given due date and satisfying all the requirements.
Keywords: simulation-based training;