The Beergame in business-to-business eCommerce courses - A teaching report

21st Bled eConference "eCollaboration: Overcoming Boundaries Through Multi-Channel Interaction" - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 588-606

  Riemer, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beergame; Bullwhip effect; ECommerce; Supply Chain; Teaching

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; EDUCATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SUPPLY CHAINS;

BEER DISTRIBUTION GAMES; BEERGAME; BULLWHIP EFFECTS; BUSINESS TO BUSINESS; CLASSROOM SETTINGS; COORDINATION PROBLEMS; INFORMATION SHARING; SUPPLY CHAIN SIMULATION;

TEACHING;

EID: 84961289389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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