Describe how you decided which options to select in the first year. What feedback did you receive from the Board of Directors? Did you change your thought process in subsequent years? Why or why not?

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Go tohttps://hbsp.harvard.edu/coursepacks/1085697, login and run the “global supply chain management simulation”

For each of the questions below, write a 2-3 paragraph response.

  1. Describe how you decided which options to select in the first year. What feedback did you receive from the Board of Directors? Did you change your thought process in subsequent years? Why or why not?
  2. How did you create the forecast? Did you measure the accuracy of the forecast? Did your forecasts improve over time?
  3. How did you choose suppliers and allocate production among them? Did you change your strategy at any point in the simulation? Why or why not? What did you learn about managing off-shore suppliers as a result of the game?

The Global Supply Chain simulation integrates material covered in several different modules including Designing Products (Module 3), Forecasting (Module 6), Inventory Management (Module 7), Supply Chain Management (Module 9) and Outsourcing (Module 11). Pick two of these topics and in 2-3 paragraphs each, describe how you used what you learned in those modules in the simulation