STEPS OF THE BEER GAME
- Receive inventory and advance the shipping
Factory advance the production delay. - Look at incoming orders and fill orders.
All incoming orders plus orders in backlog must be filled.
If your inventory is insufficient to fill incoming orders plus backlog, fill as many orders as you can and add the remaining orders to your backlog. - Record your inventory or backlog.
- Advance the order slips.
Factories introduce production requests from last week into the production delay. - Place and record your orders.