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Saturday -bright and sunny- we started off the Mezcalero entering the “Yello Tram” of the DVB (http://www.dvb.de) that brought us straight to the HTW. We were a bit overdue as Prof. Eberle and Christoph had arrived just on time and were preparing the seminar room.
After everybody had arrived and a short glance in the lots of interesting books could be made the group settled down.
So what’s next? Program?
As it was difficult to really fix a program before hand we had a short introduction of everyone and his intentions to come to the meeting (even over quite some distance;-)). The reasons ranged from curious to see other people active in lean thinking, seeing Dresden, discussing interesting questions and last -but not least- improve the skills that are necessary to bring LEAN THINKING forward in established organizations.
…then -to my own surprise- everybody agreed on starting with the BEERGAME (http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/SDG/MFS/beerMFS.html) first to settle down for the essential questions of supply chain management.
I think everybody of us didn’t think at 9:30am that we would still play and discuss around the Beergame still at around 6p. It was an excellent experience and we brought questions to light that are inherent of similar supply/production systems.
Holger took the initiative to moderate the deeper insight session in “How can we solve the experienced shortcomings (lack of trust, sticking to the numbers, oscillation, lack of communication, etc.) of the initial rounds of the Beergame?”. In smaller groups of three we learned about installing supermarkets between the different steps of the supply chain. It was a challenging discussion time and we all were deep in the learning process gathering new insights.
….to be continued
