Overview for Month 1 of 8

Customer Market 2 Market 1

Customer DeliveriesVehicles delivered to dealers this month.

1,171 247

Delivery TimeThe number of days after a vehicle is ordered until the vehicle is delivered. Delivery Time is the sum of production time, the length of the backlog of orders, and the time that it take to transport vehicles from the plant to the dealer.

15 days 15 days

Distribution Market 2 Market 1

Inventory CoverageIf production suddenly stopped, this is how many days you would have until you ran out of vehicles to ship to the dealers. Inventory coverage is calculated by dividing inventory by customer orders.

50 days 46 days

Production

Production RateThe number of vehicles that were produced this month.

1,228

Change in ProductionThe percentage change in production compared with last month. Level production reduces costs. Large changes in production can lead to overtime pay or inefficiencies. 0%

Next Steps:
Review Customer, Distribution, and Production screens; Make Decisions

Current Score

How Your Score is Calculated

You are scored for each round of the simulation. If you score perfectly during all rounds, you will get a cumulative score of 100,000 for the entire simulation.

Three factors determine your score:

Delivery times. Shorter delivery times will improve your score. Shorter delivery times mean that your customers receive your products sooner.
Inventory carrying costs. Reducing your inventory will improve your score. Smaller inventories mean lower inventory carrying costs. Be careful, though. If your inventories are too low, you'll have a stock out and increase your delivery time.
Production leveling. Maintaining even productivity from period to period makes it easier to run your plants efficiently.

Credits

The Lean Manufacturing Simulation was developed for Oracle by Forio Business Simulations. The simulation runs using the Forio Broadcast 2.0 web simulation server.

Photo (Introduction): Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 by whatknot.

Simulation Instructions

Each time period, follow these steps:

Select the Customer, Distribution, and Production links on the left to review results for the current period.
Select the Make Decisions link to implement new Lean initiatives with your limited capital budget of 100 credits per month.
Submit Decisions and Advance the simulation to the next period and review the new results.
Repeat steps 1 through 3 until the simulation is complete.

At the end of the simulation you'll receive a score, be able to enter a summary of your strategy and view the results from other users.