Final Report: Simulation and games in teaching supply chain analytics – development, implementation, and evaluation

Aim: The aim of this project is to further explore the development, implementation and evaluation of simulation games used in teaching supply chain analytics. This approach will encourage the development of a guide on how to engage with analytical content that supports supply chain models for a range of scenarios that are bringing teaching and learning content ready to be incorporated into the teaching material. This will further our understanding of how models have been used in the context of supply chain management, and to continue the work from a previous SCiLAB project 6.4 into exploring their development from the angle of analytics. Simulation games have been used from many years in business schools to demonstrate concepts and behaviours of various business-related concepts and based on our previous work from project 6.4 we have a good understanding of the most popular simulation games incorporated in teaching. Together with this understanding and the set of models previously developed, we are now looking to create the analytical content that will support these models and further develop new models. This work will have the potential to generate case studies in the form of simulation games ready to be used in teaching and learning for supply chain management and analytics. Working towards sustainability goals with the use of simulation and optimisation techniques, this project has the potential to provide tools that will allow learners to engage with practical concepts in this field of study. Objectives: Identify a guide to capture aspects of analytics for simulation games used in teaching and learning supply chain management and analyticsFurther develop simulation games models that will extend supply chain analytics contentDevelop a tool to collect feedback based on the developed simulation games