Our operations, inventory and capacity management simulator is ideal for you to put your students' knowledge into practice in a realistic and controlled environment.

In Sodapop Game, students will manage a soft drink bottling factory, making different decisions about raw materials, machine usage, acceptance or rejection of contracts, direct customers, administration, inventory and production capacity. Your goal will be to maximise profitability through intelligent management of inventory and production capacity.

Their goal will be to maximise profitability through intelligent management of inventory and production capacity.

The teams will compete indirectly, as they will all face the same playing conditions but there will be no interference between them.

Recommended for the following courses:
• Operations Management
• Optimisation
• Supply Chain Management
• Operations or Logistics Research

At the end of the simulation, the debrifing, will be displayed, which provides an instant evaluation for both teachers and students of the results of each player's performance. The final total money and money earned per day, the material units and the final product stock can be displayed.

The teacher and students can download the data in an excel file to work with it later.

You will also have access to the platform's evaluative tests that will allow you to complement the student's evaluation with theoretical questions, such as true and false, multiple choice, etc.
We have created a perfect quiz to use after the live session. You can create your own, just let us know the questions you would like to ask.

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SodaPop Game is a game that simulates the operation of a soft drink bottling factory, with the main objective of illustrating and allowing experimentation with some key operations management concepts:

• To experience and apply basic operations management concepts such as: productive capacity (buy, enable or disable machines), utilisation, fill rate, bottle neck, service level, production to stock and continuous review inventory.

• Calculate and determine the optimal decisions for managing a fixed order quantity inventory system, using the EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) model.

• Evaluate and decide on operations tactics that consider inventory and production management to take advantage of demand under uncertainty.

• Create and manage an operations strategy using forecasting to cope with demand in low information situations to maximise revenue by considering inventory and production management.

• Discuss and evaluate different operational strategies considering their results in terms of revenue.

• Manage customers by contract (accept or reject sales contracts).

The game conditions that students will face can be customised by teachers to define different levels of complexity and shift the focus of the simulation between the different concepts involved. The duration of the games is defined by the teacher, but a typical session lasts between 30 minutes and one hour.

In this way, SodaPop Game can be used in several sessions of the same course over a period of time, in Operations Management, Operations Research or Logistics courses.

Once the game is over, you will be able to see the final result of the students in different ways:
-Selecting a student individually
-Selecting two or more students for comparison
-See the performance of all players

What will you find?

In a .csv file, it will be displayed per team per day:
1. The total of the money
2. Retail customer demand
3. Stock
4. Contract demand from wholesale customers
5. Contract demand filled (fulfilled)
6. Expected contract demand (expected)
7. Number of machines per station 8. Capacity of each bottle station per day.
9. Quantity of raw material on the day 10. Q (raw material order quantity)
11. R (re-order point)

What is a scenario in the game?

The game scenario is the set of all the configurations that you will be able to modify when using the simulator to make the soda factory more or less difficult.

Within each scenario you can edit the duration, direct and contract customer demand, lead time, unit capacity of the machines in each station, costs (production and raw material) and other initial conditions.

We recommend more than one scenario to complete the experience as you level up:

- Initial difficulty: “Sodapop Experience 1-10 minutes”: Introduction to the EOQ model - 10 minutes. Constant demand, no production control.

- Sodapop Experience 2 - 30 minutes
Demand forecasting Inventory management - 30 minutes - Random demand with constant rate.

SodaPop Experience 3 - 45 minutes
Demand forecasting and operational tactics - 45 minutes - Random demand, variable rate.

SodaPop Experience 4A - 45 minutes
Introduction to process analysis - Random demand with constant rate.

SodaPop Experience 4C - 3 days
Demand forecasting and stock management - Random demand with variable rate.

-Maximum difficulty: “GaTech Go Jackets!!!”: Developed by professors at the University of Georgia, Atlanta

How to launch the game?

It is very simple, the teacher and students access the simulation through a web browser, using a computer or tablet.
The teacher creates a game by naming it and choosing the scenario to play so that the students can join in and share the game code and can play individually or in teams.

Game settings, how you can edit a scenario

You will be able to modify the actual time duration of the line item, simulated days, production cost, annual interest rate, selling price per bottle, price per unit of raw material, fixed cost per order, lead time, demand per contract, demand from direct customers (retailers), initial conditions, seasons, scoring and others.