Supply Chain Management-Beer Game Report HeYi5100309186 changes more than wholesaler's,while the demand of the factory varies the most and shows the great fluctuation. From the report,we can see that the mean of the retailer demand is the least, wholesaler has a larger mean,distributor's mean even larger,and the mean of the factory is the largest.The standard deviation(SD)has the same rank,so as the cost. Which means across the supply chain,the mean of the order would become more because of the larger order fluctuation (Which can be seen from the larger SD),and this can cause a larger total cost. 2.Choose Short lead time mode then run the game for 20 rounds,the result shows as follows: The Boer Caue 回冈 E1t四tu6ai卫y女gbi好储u道 儿2 3 RETAILER-Week 20 total cost:52 3 backorder 0 inventory delay 1 recent order: 2 WHOLESALER-Week 20 total cost:140 10 2 backorder:0 inventory Selay recent order:2 DISTRIBUTOR-Week 20 total cost:341 11 6 backorder: 0 ● inventory delay 1 recent order:1 FACTORY-Week 20 total cost:627 54 0 backorder:0 inventory delay 1 recent order:0 Fig.12 short lead time prefaceSupply Chain Management - Beer Game Report He Yi 5100309186 8 changes more than wholesaler’s, while the demand of the factory varies the most and shows the great fluctuation. From the report, we can see that the mean of the retailer demand is the least, wholesaler has a larger mean, distributor’s mean even larger, and the mean of the factory is the largest. The standard deviation (SD) has the same rank, so as the cost. Which means across the supply chain, the mean of the order would become more because of the larger order fluctuation (Which can be seen from the larger SD), and this can cause a larger total cost. 2. Choose Short lead time mode then run the game for 20 rounds, the result shows as follows: Fig .12 short lead time preface