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The Beer Game
January 17, 2017
MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
Cambridge, MA
Dr. Josué C. Velázquez Martínez
Director, SCALE Latin America
josue@mit.edu
The Beer Game
• The Beer Game was
developed here at MIT
• 1960s by Jay Forrester in
Sloan System Dynamics
Group and study of
industrial dynamics
• Played by 1,000s around
the world, reflects many of
the dynamics of supply
chains
• But there is no beer…
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