Operations & Supply Chain · Operations Management

The Lean Warehouse: Stock Control Under Pressure

Run operations at Velvet Socks — a fast-growing online sock retailer.

6 rounds MBA & Masters English, Español

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About this simulation

Run operations at Velvet Socks — a fast-growing online sock retailer. Across six rounds, manage inventory for up to three SKUs: set reorder levels, buffer stock and order quantities, survive a supplier delay, decide where to adopt just-in-time, pick kaizen improvements that cut waste, and respond to a viral TikTok demand spike.

Practise the sawtooth model, ABC analysis, lean trade-offs and the tension between efficiency and resilience.

Who it is for

An intermediate simulation for participants who already know the core concepts of the subject, designed for master's and MBA programmes.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 6 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Reorder Level
  • Buffer Stock
  • Order Qty
  • Response
  • JIT Adoption
  • Kaizen Choice
  • Crisis Response

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • SKU Parameters
  • Supplier Delay
  • Profit and Service Level by Round
  • Stock Sawtooth — Last Round

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Operations Management.

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