(Lean Learning Center: NOVI, MI) -- The Lean Learning Center, one of the most recognized and premier providers of lean consulting and transformation services in the world, announced the availability of their version of The Beer Game - a new educational product to move a company's lean transformation journey forward and produce sustainable results.

The Beer Game is a logistics game that was originally developed by MIT in the 1960's and has since been played all over the world by people at all levels, from students to presidents of large multinational corporations.  It was developed to demonstrate a number of key principles of supply chain management. 

"Participants put forth their best efforts within their supply chain to satisfy their customer's weekly beer demand while maintaining low operational costs," said Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-founder and partner.  "They usually do not achieve the successful results that they have strategized within their operations and this moves to the central question of the game, which is why participants achieved undesirable results.  They soon learn that bad systems will beat good people every time."

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