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📦 Running Beekeeping as a Business: Supply Chains and Strategic Planning

A 3D reorder-point inventory simulation for a small UK beekeeping business — set demand, order quantity, lead time and safety stock and watch stock levels, supplier orders and stockouts respond live.

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A live 3D reorder-point inventory model for a small UK beekeeping business: watch an amber stock silo drain as jars sell, trigger automatic supplier orders, and see delivery trucks and a scrolling sawtooth chart respond to your settings.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

A classic (Q, R) reorder-point inventory system: stock drains at the demand rate, and once it falls to the reorder point R a fixed order of size Q is placed, arriving only after the supplier's lead time — sometimes too late to avoid a stockout.

🎮 How to Use

Set weekly demand, order quantity, supplier lead time and reorder point. Watch the silo level, the gold reorder ring, the supplier truck and the scrolling stock chart respond, and track stockout time in the readout.

💡 Did You Know?

Small apiary businesses rarely need formal EOQ formulas — but simply setting a reorder point that covers demand during the slowest realistic delivery is usually enough to avoid running out of jars mid-harvest.

⚙ Under the hood

beekeepinginventory simulationsupply chainbusiness managementsmall businessbeesThree.js

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install