At the start of the simulation it is important to make decisions that will have a long-term positive impact on the business. That is, decisions that make the company’s short-term outlook seem negative, but that will bring in cash towards the end. At the end of the simulation you should weigh the pros and cons of spending cash to fix a bottleneck, for example, but not having enough time left to reap the benefits of that expenditure. The first key decision was to increase the station 1 machine count to 2. The group decided to make this change since the machine was operating at full capacity, thus creating a bottleneck in operations.