Distrubution Activity

Today in our marketing class we learned about distrubution. Distrubition is the way a product gets from point A to point B. So we did an activity to get a better understanding about distrubution. We had three team members and each had a job. We had to get salt and water from one side of the class to the other side of the room using the tools of a spoon, napkin, and straw. The salt and water were in a cup and the cup symbolize a factory. So we couldn't pick up the cup. One team member had got a straw and sucked up all the water in his mouth. He had to take two trips to get the water from point A to point B. Then my other teamate and I had to use the spoon to pick up the salt and place it in the napkin. We couldnt pick up the cup so it took like 4 trips. Our team had got in second place. Our teams ideas work well, but the only thing was that we were kind of slow while they did it quicker. I willl consider our distribution plan a huge successes. The distribution plan is important to the business world because the customer or who ever is getting the product wants to be satisfied.