A Deep Q-Network for the Beer Game: A Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithm to Solve Inventory Optimization Problems

Afshin Oroojlooyjadid, MohammadReza Nazari, Lawrence Snyder +1

The beer game is a widely used in-class game that is played in supply chain management classes to demonstrate the bullwhip effect. The game is a decentralized, multi-agent, coopera…