Teaching Supply Chain Management Complexities: A SCOR Model Based Classroom Simulation     

G. Scott Webb  Stephanie P. Thomas  Sara Liao‐Troth 《Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education》2014,12(3):181-198

The SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) Model Supply Chain Classroom Simulation is an in‐class experiential learning activity that helps students develop a holistic understanding of the processes and challenges of supply chain management. The simulation has broader learning objectives than other supply chain related activities such as the Beer Game. Competing supply chains work to produce and sell two products, each experiencing differential demand. Seasonal demand, time delays, quality defects, and disruptions offer complexities that are part of actual supply chain management. The behavioral dynamics of collaboration between various functional nodes is illustrated through students’ interactions as they try to achieve their role's objectives. Through their decisions and actions, students develop a practical understanding of the processes and complexities of supply chain management. The classroom simulation actively engages students, and has been used successfully in multiple courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels at multiple universities and by a major corporation during a manager training session. Assessments indicate that the simulation is an effective experiential learning activity. While it offers learning outcome flexibility, common debrief themes are SCOR model processes, supply chain relationships, information flow, seasonal demand, quality defects, reverse logistics, and supply chain disruptions.  相似文献   

Teaching Lean Six Sigma within A Supply Chain Context: The Airplane Supply Chain Simulation     

Scott C. Ellis  Thomas J. Goldsby  Ana M. Bailey  Jae‐Young Oh 《Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education》2014,12(4):287-319

Lean six sigma is a management methodology that firms can employ to achieve substantial improvement in supply chain performance. However, few pedagogical exercises facilitate students’ use of a comprehensive set of lean six sigma principles within a supply chain context. We describe the Airplane Supply Chain Simulation that helps students understand how lean six sigma concepts may be leveraged to improve supply chain performance. The basis of this simulation is a four‐tier supply chain, consisting of suppliers (two tiers), a manufacturer, and a customer, that produces three models of paper airplanes to meet randomly distributed customer demand. In the first of three successive runs, a highly structured simulation is executed in which supply chain roles are well defined, material flows are convoluted, and a “push” production strategy is followed. The first simulation as the “current state” and, for the second and third simulation runs, challenge competing student teams to leverage lean six sigma concepts to develop a “future state” that enables the fulfillment of all customer orders at the lowest cost. Results based on statistical analyses of survey response data from 194 MBA students show that the Airplane Supply Chain Simulation is an effective participative, team‐based learning tool.  相似文献   

Enacted Goal Attention in Family Conversations about End-of-life Health Decisions     

Allison M. Scott  John P. Caughlin 《Communication monographs》2014,81(3):261-284

Most extant research on end-of-life communication in families has been based on the assumption that more communication is better communication. We used a multiple goals theoretical perspective to demonstrate that the quality of communication about end-of-life decisions matters. Members of 121 older parent/adult child dyads (N = 242) engaged in an elicited conversation about end-of-life health choices and reported their assessments of the conversation. Using multilevel linear modeling, we found that outside ratings of a person's communication quality (i.e., attention to task, identity, and relational goals) as well as outside ratings of the partner's communication quality were positively associated with the person's reported conversational satisfaction and hopefulness and negatively associated with the person's hurt feelings and relational distancing.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Estelle Jobson  Scott Manning 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2005,21(2):77-80

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On the practical forms of engineering works exposed to the action of the waves of the sea,and on the advatages and disadvantages of certain forms of construction for breakwaters and sea walls     

John Scott Russell 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1847,44(1):13-15

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Have competencies needed by teachers of the hearing impaired changed in 25 years?     

P L Scott 《Exceptional children》1983,50(1):48-53

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Medical writing: should you add to it?     

J. T. Scott 《Learned Publishing》1994,7(1):29-31

Suggests some reasons for the growth in the number of medical papers published, and some disadvantages arising from it.  相似文献   

John White on State Control of the Curriculum [1]     

Scott Carson 《Journal of Philosophy of Education》1978,12(1):63-68

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James Bryant conant on reading disabilities     

Marcelle Kelley 《Annals of dyslexia》1966,16(1):90-91

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Policies for Reporting Test Results to Parents     

Bonnie L. Barber  Scott G. Paris  Margaret Evans  Vivian L. Gadsden 《Educational Measurement》1992,11(1):15-20

What are the state and district policies on reporting test results to parents? How well do local districts follow state policies?  相似文献