Business Simulations to demonstrate benefits of ERP? MIT's Beer Game +

Do you know of some good, relatively inexpensive business simulations to demonstrate the benefits of end-to-end Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)?
I'm looking for something like:
1) MIT's Beer game - http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/SDG/beergame.html
2) CAPSIM Simulators - http://www.capsim.com/business-simulations/homepage.cfm?CFID=647931&CFTOKEN=67986400
3) Industry Player - http://www.industryplayer.com/
And in particular, I'm interested in your opinion of the suitability of these tools to demonstrate the benefits of ERP.
I'm teaching a Master's level class and can either run the simulations on the web - or on applications downloaded to PCs in the lab.
Any help you can provide will be appreciated.
Dan O.
National University

If your school is a member of the SAP University Alliance, I'd recommend you look into the ERPsim games from HEC Montreal. You can get more info at http://erpsim.hec.ca/

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