Supply Chain Game: the Beer Game for one player
The classic Beer Game, played alone in a few minutes under the name Mars Supply Run. The player runs one station in a four-stage supply chain to a colony on Mars.
- Status
- Live
- Role
- Everything, from game design to operations
- Period
- Designed in 2025, online in 2026
- Built with
- React, TypeScript, Vite
The starting point
The classic Beer Game needs four players, a facilitator and about an hour. That makes it hard to play more than once.
The solution
The player runs one station and the computer runs the other three. The decision is the same as in the real game: how much to order each period.
The debrief
After a season the game shows a bullwhip chart for each stage and compares the player's result with a base-stock policy run on exactly the same demand. The advice is based on the player's own decisions.
Everything runs in the browser without an account, and no data leaves the player's machine.
Where it stands
The game is freely available and became the first of the games in Operations Lab.
Play it yourself
A season takes a few minutes.