INFORMS Open Forum

Dear colleagues,

You are invited to a Workshop on Teaching Supply Chain Management via Games. The workshop is free and intended for instructors developing new supply chain management courses or improving an existing supply chain course with experiential learning.

Many supply chain management topics are hard to lecture but easy to play out. Games and simulations can significantly improve students’ learning outcomes while reduce instructors’ workload. In this workshop, we will play two online instructional games, the Hunger Chain simulation (hunger game) and FloraPark simulation (flower game), to learn how to teach important and timely topics in supply chain management such as shortage gaming (panic orders, hoarding), supply chain competition, supply chain contracts and coordination.

Dates: August 28, 29, 3-4:30pm EDT (New York), 2023.

Registration and more information can be found here:

https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuduioqjgiE9V7rJLktw0QbUICymB3jG34

Thanks, @Yao Zhao, for posting this note.

I agree on the value of using games for lively discussion and supply chain management teaching moments. I would like to learn more about your thinking on using games for experiential learning.  Also, I would like to mention that I ran a supply chain game at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, in Phoenix, for a limited audience.  

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I'm especially interested in your best tips for teaching games in a limited classroom time setting and what teaching assets you find most useful. Please reach out to me directly (dklett@kinaxis.com) or to Mindi Levinson (mlevinson@kinaxis.com).

Thanks

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Duncan Klett