CELEMI PartnerStock™ – Our Supply Chain Simulation
UNLOCK YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN POTENTIAL
Are inventory levels and lead times causing headaches? Are your colleagues stuck in old routines, despite all efforts, training, and kickoffs? If so, our supply chain simulation might be the solution you’ve been searching for.
Celemi PartnerStock™ offers an engaging and competitive experience. Participants are divided into teams and confronted with realistic inventory-related challenges and dilemmas. They must strategically allocate their limited resources to tackle these challenges. The goal is to optimize inventory levels while ensuring customer satisfaction and profitability.
Team-based discussions, competitive dynamics, and comprehensive debriefings in a collective setting foster a highly immersive, engaging, and enjoyable learning environment. Participants not only learn from each other but also gain valuable insights relevant to their real-world challenges, strengthened by research and scientific models.
KEY CONCEPTS COVERED
- Buffer strategies
- Stocking points
- Revealing root causes by reducing buffers
Demand
- Fluctuating forecasts and the bullwhip effect
- Customers making last minute changes to delivery dates
- Sudden demand and rush orders
- Forecasts to suppliers
- Missing parts
- Quality problems in components
Production
- Bottlenecks in production
- Changes of production plans
- Rushing delayed orders through production
- Make-to-order vs. Make-to-stock
- Customers complaining about long lead-times
- Long queue times in production
- Long set-up times
“The simulation reflected our reality very well. It helped us experiment with different “what if“ scenarios, in a safe environment and in a fun and engaging way.”
– Jan Fuhr Miller (CFO), Polypeptide
“It was important to me that the leaders from the different areas get a common view on this very important issue for us. The simulation was an ideal catalyst for an intensive discussion about it.“
– Ali Sahin (Executive Partner and CEO), EPSa GmbH
“The examples in the simulation helped us realize where we have our own improvement potentials – and we could immediately start working with them.”
– CEO, Shell Nordic
In our supply chain simulation, participants will:
- See the big picture of the supply chain and understand how they can contribute to optimizing inventory
- Become better decision-makers in their daily job and anticipate the consequences of their decisions
- Know when to build buffers and which types of buffers to build
- Break down silos and improve transparency with key stakeholders through the entire value chain
- Search for the root cause behind problems
- Find courage and strong arguments to challenge customers, suppliers, and colleagues when needed
- Understand the responsibility that comes with the central position in the supply chain
- Understand the importance of being proactive and one step ahead
- Discover opportunities for improvements – and have the desire to make a difference!