Ranging from team training to national competition - the Serious game to enhance your supply chain management skills
Involvation likes to introduce The Fresh Connection. A unique training concept centered around a serious game, a business simulation with a competitive element. Available as part of a team building session, an explorative training, a full five day training, and a national or in-company competition.
Optimize the supply chain in a simulated environment
The Fresh Connection is a virtual producer of fruit juices. This producer faces several challenges. A variety of causes have brought The Fresh Connection to certain ruin. You are challenged in a small team to take over The Fresh Connection’s management, optimize the supply chain and make the company prosper once again.
Advanced simulation software, lifelike results
The core of The Fresh Conection is an online environment. On this internet site, you receive tasks, take your decisions, track developments in your supply chain and design your own KPI cockpit. Advanced simulation software calculates the consequences of your decisions.
Event, workshop, competition or academy?
These are the options to improve your knowledge and enhance your skills with The Fresh Connection:
- The national or in-company competition is a large scale event in which teams of one or more companies participate. In seven weekly rounds the teams make their decisions. At a final event the teams meet and compete to become the best scoring supply chain management team.
- The academy is regarded as the ultimate learning concept. You optimize the supply chain in seven rounds. Each round Involvation provides you with in-depth knowledge and new insights.
- The workshop takes one day in which gaining experience and knowledge is key.
- The even takes a half day in which the focus is on the competitive element. Often the event is used as part of a team building program. The most important supply chain principles are covered during the event. But the main message is: collaboration is the key to success.
The main benefits for you and your team
- During The Fresh Connection you gain experience by acting as a supply chain management team, testing you logistics skills, developing a vision on the supply chain. You are confronted with lifelike results.
- In a safe environment you can experiment with new concepts and gain knowledge.
- Decisions and results happen in quick succession, therefore increasing the learning beneftis.
The learning points
The Fresh Connection is intended for all general and functional managers involved in, directly or indirectly, managing a supply chain. The main learning points are:
- Collaboration, within a company and between supply chain partners, is the key to success. By only looking after your own interests, you will make suboptimal decisions, and are penalized by bad results. Many competitors noticed that this element became a structural improvement in their organization.
- You will discover that supply chain management is the foundation of a healthy return on investment, and that is important to control your supply chain risks.
- It is crucial to actively deal with changing environments… The results say all.
- KPI’s are the key to a decisive supply chain management.
Contact Involvation to learn more about this fascinating training concept and the surplus value for your company!
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