{"id":5421,"date":"2024-02-23T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T10:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:18:46","slug":"the-beer-game-supply-and-demand-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2024\/02\/23\/the-beer-game-supply-and-demand-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beer Game: supply and demand chains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Beer Game\u00a0was invented in the 1960s by Jay Forrester at MIT. The game was designed to teach about supply and demand chains . Users are required to balance these and keep inventories. <br>IIOM, has a free multiplayer version of the online beer game, <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiiom-web.org%2Fbeergame2%2Fplay.php&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C54ac349f62f34e6f24ac08dc344dd81d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638442756153074048%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=IwoxjbJGNa4dZJfWoHB%2FNBKai518ewr8ci62I9QcHAY%3D&amp;reserved=0\">here &gt;&gt;<\/a><br>and a single player version <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iiom-web.org%2Fbeergame%2Fplay.php&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C54ac349f62f34e6f24ac08dc344dd81d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638442756153080296%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2FBhyfj8W%2Bpruczlv0BE1F7OPhXjh9HTG5QQBui2eckM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">here &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have to register (for free) and sign up to receiving promotional emails to play. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beer Game\u00a0was invented in the 1960s by Jay Forrester at MIT. The game was designed to teach about supply and demand chains . Users are required to balance these and keep inventories. IIOM, has a free multiplayer version of the online beer game, here &gt;&gt;and a single player version here &gt;&gt; You have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[901],"class_list":["post-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","tag-supply-and-demand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5422,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions\/5422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}