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Supply Chain Management

Sourcing, inventory, demand planning, sustainability — make a global supply chain resilient.

L4 – L7

What you'll decide

Decision categories you'll face

Procurement Strategy
Supplier Geography
Ethical Sourcing
Inventory Policy
Safety Stock
Demand Forecasting
Sustainability Initiatives
Risk Mitigation

KPIs you'll manage

5 metrics under live pressure

  • 1.Fill Rate
  • 2.Cost of Ownership
  • 3.Supplier Performance
  • 4.SC Agility
  • 5.Carbon Footprint

Skills you'll build

What you walk away with

Every Boardroom builds Supply Chain Management judgment AND the universal decision-making skills below.

Supply Chain Management skills

1

Demand forecasting

Translate market signals into inventory and capacity decisions.

2

Supplier risk management

Diversify, dual-source, and stress-test the supplier base.

3

Ethical sourcing

Apply Scope 3 emissions, modern slavery, and ethical compliance standards.

4

Resilience planning

Design supply chains that absorb shocks rather than amplify them.

5

Bullwhip recognition

Spot demand distortion before it cascades through the network.

6

Sustainability integration

Balance landed-cost optimisation with carbon-footprint discipline.

Plus universal Boardroom skills

Critical evaluation

Spot flawed reasoning even when it comes from a confident expert.

AI literacy

Verify AI output rather than trust it by default — the wrong advisor mechanic IS AI-verification training.

Defended reasoning

Articulate why you made the call under time pressure, not just what you decided.

Multi-axis tradeoffs

Judge decisions across cost, quality, schedule, safety, brand — not just one KPI.

Stakeholder communication

Tell hard news to clients, regulators, and teams without losing credibility.

Ethics under pressure

Hold duties to the public, the firm, and the profession when they pull in different directions.

Frameworks & terminology referenced

What you'll meet in the dilemmas

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Scenarios

Supply Chain Management dilemmas

Hand-picked anchor dilemmas. Click to preview or request the full build.

Supply Chain Management
L4·20 min

The Tier-1 Supplier Bottleneck

Your largest plastic-moulding supplier can't meet next month's order. Fill from a smaller backup (4-week lead, 12% premium), reduce promised quantities, or accept partial delivery and apologise?

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Supply Chain Management
L5·20 min

Ethical Audit Flag at Tier-2

An external audit flags labour-rights concerns at your cheapest supplier (40% of category spend). Switch suppliers immediately (3-month cost spike), give 6 months to remediate, or commission a deeper investigation first?

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Supply Chain Management
L6·20 min

Shipping Route Closed — Disruption Event

A geopolitical event closes one of your major shipping routes for ≥3 months. Air-freight high-value items (5x cost), reroute via longer sea route (15-day delay), or accept stock-outs for affected SKUs?

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Supply Chain Management
L7·20 min

Multi-Tier Visibility Crisis

A tier-3 supplier you didn't know existed was the source of recent quality defects — now affecting end customers. Demand full multi-tier visibility (slow + costly), self-audit top 10 categories, or wait for next event?

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Also available as a Standard Sim

Multi-team Supply Chain Management simulation

Multi-team supply chain simulation with live ripple events. 53 industry tracks, tutor controls, assessment evidence.

See the Standard Sim ↗

Industry settings

Anchored to real sectors

  • ·Consumer Electronics
  • ·Pharmaceutical
  • ·Automotive
  • ·Food & Agriculture
  • ·Retail & FMCG
  • ·Aerospace

Industry context

Frameworks our content is informed by

CIPSCILT

The decision categories and vocabulary used in our Supply Chain Management dilemmas are informed by the kinds of topics widely covered in these frameworks. Students preparing for chartership or apprenticeship pathways often find the format useful as independent practice material.

Note: MyEdMentor is independent simulation content. We are not endorsed by, accredited by, or affiliated with any of the named bodies. Their names are referenced here to describe content overlap only.

Player feedback

What learners say

Anonymous post-play ratings from the last 12 months. Public rating shows 4★ and 5★ responses.

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In their words

Amazing simulation, Proper use of the brain. :)
After: Boardroom A: Quality Decisions
Excellent decision-making
After: Resilience & Disruption

Earn

Play well, walk away with

Each Boardroom ends with a credibility score and badges that share to LinkedIn.

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Detective

Caught every wrong advisor.

🗣️

Sage

Strong rationales for every decision.

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Strategist

All decisions correct.

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Promoted

Hit credibility 70+. Level up.

For educators & L&D teams

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