SDM invited Professor Paul Schoensleben from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) for an intensive course “Supply Chain Management in a Nutshell” as a part of the “Supply Chain Management” course taught by Professor Nakano and Assistant Professor Minato. The intensive course consisted of three practical games (“Serious Games”) with the aim of getting students to intuitively learn the importance of supply chain management from the basic concept through application techniques by participating in each game as players.
First was the Logistics Game, in which students must manufacture a mobile phone using Lego blocks. They are assigned to manage each process of manufacturing mobile phones; taking orders, assembly, quality control, and distribution, and learned how to design the overall system that optimizes quality, cost and distribution while adapting to the continuously changing customer requirements.