Supply Chain Module : Blue Connection

5-year combined undergraduate / graduate Engineering programs

General Data
Academic program	General Engineering Program			:
Type d'EC	Classes
Tutorials : 20h00 Total duration : 30h00	Status :	Period : SEMESTER 9	Education language : French

Learning Outcomes
Understand the stakes and advantages of a circular supply chain and circular economy. Know how to evaluate and value a circular strategy. Establish a transformation strategy from a linear supply chain to a circular supply chain.

Content
Business simulation THE BLUE CONNECTION (publisher INCHAINGE) which students will play via a web interface (in English). ECAM La Salle is a forerunner in the deployment of this game (we work in parallel with professors from HEC). The game takes place in 6 to 8 rounds, the students work in teams of 3 or 4 and each plays the role of a manager within the fictitious company The Blue Connection: - Sales management - Purchasing/design department - Supply chain management - Finance department The company sells bicycles (only one model) to 3 different customers and is in great financial difficulty. The goal of this game is to make the company profitable while developing a circular economy. In each round, the students test and deploy a circularity or life extension strategy (maintenance/warranty, refurbishment, remanufacturing, recycling). In the final rounds, they must choose their own strategy, implement it and explain it in an individual report.

Content

Business simulation THE BLUE CONNECTION (publisher INCHAINGE) which students will play via a web interface (in English).
ECAM La Salle is a forerunner in the deployment of this game (we work in parallel with professors from HEC).
The game takes place in 6 to 8 rounds, the students work in teams of 3 or 4 and each plays the role of a manager within the fictitious company The Blue Connection:
- Sales management
- Purchasing/design department
- Supply chain management
- Finance department
The company sells bicycles (only one model) to 3 different customers and is in great financial difficulty. The goal of this game is to make the company profitable while developing a circular economy.
In each round, the students test and deploy a circularity or life extension strategy (maintenance/warranty, refurbishment, remanufacturing, recycling).
In the final rounds, they must choose their own strategy, implement it and explain it in an individual report.

Pre-requisites / co-requisites
Industrial Organization courses (A&M year 4) and SUPPLY CHAIN Module

Assessment(s)
N°	Nature	Coefficient	Observable objectives
1	Continuous Assessment	2