Development of a Supply Chain Management Simulation Game

This paper is devoted to the development of a business simulation game for supply chain management of a prototype company in milk industry. The task of game development is done in stages: 1) Market research of the milk industry: an overview of the main indicators and patterns of production and consumption of the typical product categories, an analysis of major players’ activity; 2) Development of a conceptual description of the supply chain of the focus company; 3) Allocation of responsibility areas for company's divisions and assignment of decision-making areas; 4) Development of a system for assessing the economic efficiency of a focus company's business activities; 5) Development of the simulation model of the focus company and appropriate methods of the players' interaction with the simulation model; 6) Designing the content of the business case and development of the methodological materials for the business game participants. The relevance of this work is justified by the proven educational efficiency of this method and successful development of professional competencies of students involved in simulation games, and the fact that simulation games' usage is a rare experience among educational programs in the field of logistics and supply chain management in Russia.