Food Supply Chain Strategy in Beer Game with Perishability and Fulfilment Level

Abstract

Food waste is a global problem and has a significant impact on economic level. In food supply chain, certain strategy can be applied to tackle this problem. In order to formulate the strategy, we use variant of Beer Game, by adding perishability and fulfilment level. Perishability is implemented by adding product’s shelf life and waste while fulfilment level describe how good does supply chain do in term of fulfilling consumer’s need. In this research we use two rules for perishability namely normal rule and one-third rule. Result shows that the lowest total cost for the whole experiment is 889.26 with normal rule, T/O of 5/10, and fulfilment level of 48%. While the maximum fulfilment level recorded is 63% with normal rule applied.