Based on run beer game simulation

a) Compare the patterns of new customer orders and the orders you have placed. Do they have different patterns in the past 50 weeks? What are the reasons leading to the inconsistency?

b) How do the differences between the patterns of new customer orders and the orders you have placed affect your inventory levels? How do they affect your customers and your upstream supply chain members?

c) If the vendor and beer brewers use the orders you placed as a signal of the demand of the end customers, do you think they can predict the demand pattern correctly? What may be the consequence?

d) If you run this game again, what strategy will you take to minimize the numbers of back orders and inventory holding?