Published March 1, 2016
By Bruce Tompkins
Partner, Tompkins International
Tompkins International is helping to support a great supply chain learning event: The Fresh Connection Global Challenge 2016.
The Fresh Connection is an advanced online business simulation that challenges participants to work together as a team to demonstrate and improve their knowledge of the value chain. This year’s edition of The Global Challenge will start with company teams, made up of four people, and taking part in public workshops. The workshops are a meaningful learning experience in their own right.
Participation in the Global Challenge is easy; simply register your team of online at:
www.thefreshconnection.biz
Open training workshops run through mid-April 2016.
The Global Challenge runs through June 3, 2016 with the Global Challenge final on September 22, 2016 in Miami, Florida. The winning team in entitled to a five day Supply Chain Management executive course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Further Information:
Every year, The Fresh Connection Global Challenge pits teams from companies in your region and across the globe against each other. It is an ideal opportunity to learn by experience and match your company’s supply chain management skills against the best in the world.
The Fresh Connection Global Challenge uses the same cross-functional format as in open training workshops and in-company learning experiences, with teams made up of the same four key disciplines: supply chain, operations, sales, and purchasing. A fifth member may also join the team as ‘coach’.
Teams complete several rounds in which they make strategic and tactical choices. At the end of each round, the sophisticated software behind The Fresh Connection calculates the effects of their decisions and ranks the teams accordingly.
Why you should enter The Fresh Connection Global Challenge
- Experience the power of true alignment
- Increase cross-functional knowledge and awareness
- Develop advanced decision-making skills
- Learn how to effectively manage trade-offs
- Gain knowledge of how to put Strategy into Action
- See that benefits of collaboration are measurable
- Learn how to prevent or mitigate risk
- Build effective teams
- Achieve national and international recognition
- Be rewarded for excellence
- Become The Fresh Connection World Champion
Every edition of the challenge has a current supply chain theme. Some examples from recent years are: Sales and Operations Planning, Carbon Footprint, Supply Chain Risk Management, Strategy Segmentation, and Logistics Footprint.
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