An Introduction of Balanced Scorecard to Designing of Educational SCM Simulator

Abstract

Manufacturing companies have many problems such as the correspondence to the diversification of consumer needs, reduced in the stock, and so on. Solving those problems, supply chain management (SCM) is said to be useful concept to be introduced. For this reason, this study is considered to make educational SCM simulation include the concept of balanced scorecard (BSC).

SCM simulator composed of the markets, retailers, makers, suppliers and that comprise a chain be coordinated. The learner becomes the decision-maker of each section in the manufacturer and repeats decision makings with keeping thinking about the strategic target and capital investment, etc. Moreover, the simulator would be introduced the concept of BSC to transmit the word by doing to the learner group.

To evaluate the developed simulator, the graduate student experienced experimentally. As a result, it was able to be confirmed that the learner could be understood the concept of SCM and BSC.