What you did (transactions and rationales)

Littlefield Simulation Written Report Template

1. Introduction

• Ending ranking and ending cash position.
• Provide a brief overview of your team strategy, actions and eventual results.

Notes: You are presenting your results to the executive board, the very first thing that the executives want to know is how well you operated the plant.  This is measured by the revenue you made by the time the simulation ended.  Be honest with your assessment of your performance.  If you lost money, simply say it.  But always preference this negative with a statement like “the team learned a lot that will enable the team to recoup the losses in the future.”   Be sure to share the learnings toward you closing statements.  In other words, convince the executives why they should continue to let you work for them.)

When you share the topline actions, summarize them to provide the total picture. For example, your summary statement might be like this: “The team purchased a total of three machines (two for station 1 and one for station 2. “We changed the scheduling rule on day ?? to expedite throughput through station 3.  These decisions were based on utilization and queuing data which we will show in the exhibits”.   The details will be covered in the next section.

2. What you did (transactions and rationales)

• Reference relevant exhibits (graphs and calculations)

Notes:  This is where you can provide more specific details regarding why you made purchases or sold equipment.  This should not be a list of dates and changes you made like buying a machine on day 51 and another machine on day 62.  The board will have this information already.  Your statements should explain what actions were taken but more importantly why those actions were taken.  What specific data was used to lead you to the actions that you took.  So start off with your observations and calculations that resulted in your taking certain actions.

3. What would you do differently and why.

• Successes – what worked well
• Failures – what did not work well

Notes:  This is where you provide the learnings that you got from your experience.  Refer back to your strategy going into the simulation.  Did it work?  If not, what will you do different.  This is where you are doing your pitch to remain consultants for the executives in the future.  Be specific by convincing the executives you recognize inappropriate decisions made during the simulation.

4. Exhibits: The first two are required:

• Attach the transaction history showing what changes you made.
• Attach your forecast that was used to determine demand
• Screen pictures after the simulation has finished. Can include the following (you are not required to provide all of them).  Present the ones that best supports your story and rationales
  • Station 1- 3 utilization graph
  • Station 1 – 3 queue size graph
  • Completed jobs graph
  • Completed jobs revenue graph
  • Customer orders: queued jobs graph
  • Completed jobs lead times graph