Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to the online workshop on "Best Practices of Teaching Supply Chain Analytics to Meet Job Market Requirements", to be held on August 5th and 6th, 10am-12pm (New York Time), 2025.
The supply chain job market is shifting towards analytical and data skills. However, many such skills are not adequately covered in our curricula. How to design practically relevant supply chain courses that are rigorous and also give students an interactive fun-filled learning experience?
This online workshop shares the best practices of teaching supply chain management by data analytics and experiential games, including complete and modulated teaching packages with up-to-date materials and well-defined learning objectives that fit into various course schedules.
For details and registration:
https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/z6Zg77PaQw6FrAAry8s1DA
Topics:
Overview: Latest job market requirements and the new curriculum overview.
Financial impact of supply chains: Small change big impact.
Sourcing Analytics: Explore and select suppliers in the age of global supply chain restructuring.
Inventory Analytics: How does inventory drive financial performance? How do I know if I have an inventory problem?
Competitive intelligence and benchmarking: Discover problems and diagnose root causes like a business analytics consultant.
Hunger Chain simulation: Teach shortage gaming (panic orders and hoarding), newsvendor models and the value of information in this simple and excitement-packed game.
FloraPark simulation: Teach supply chain contracts and collaboration by this strategy game for students to learn how to go from "back-stabbing" to "win-win".
Student feedback:
"No one truly enjoys analyzing data, but when you source it and analyze it in a way that is so visually informative, I found that to be tremendously helpful and fun. I don't know that I would've been provided the opportunity to do so anywhere else."
"I found the sourcing analytics module extremely useful, … which I can see myself using in future roles."
"The supply chain strategy games [FloraPark] … were exceptional learning experience!"
Instructor feedback:
"For this year's EMBA teaching, I got 5.0 [out of 5.0] … The [FloraPark] game is awesome that is enthusiastically received by my students."
Bio: Yao is a professor of Supply Chain Management at Rutgers University. He won the 1st prize of INFORM Case Writing Competition 2014, the Dean's Meritorious Teaching Award 2016, and the DSJIE Best Teaching Brief award in 2021. Modules of his book, "Supply Chain Analytics: Cases, Games and Solutions" (https://yzhao12345.github.io/#book), have been adopted by numerous instructors around the world.
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Yao Zhao
Professor
Rutgers University
Newark NJ
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