The Supply Chain Simternship® + Courseware
Engaging tools to teach the foundations of supply chain management
The Supply Chain Bundle pairs a hands-on Simternship with time-saving, resource-rich courseware. This bundle gives your students the chance to experiment with the concepts you’re teaching in a low-risk environment.
With the Simternship and courseware, your students will apply forecasting models to real-world supply chain scenarios, meet demand, optimize inventory levels, select transportation methods and warehouse locations, and perform other vital supply chain tasks. You’ll also get a full suite of instructional tools, including auto-graded assignments and assessments, engaging multimedia content, lesson plans, and so much more.
Easy for You, Engaging for Students
The Stukent Supply Chain Simternship
Launch careers
with a Simternship
The Supply Chain Simternship gives students hands-on educational experiences with essential logistics strategies.
Your students will master key supply chain skills, including:
Demand forecasting
Inventory management and allocation
Supplier performance analysis
Crisis management
Warehousing and transportation
Negotiation and supplier relations
Key simulation learning objectives
Over the course of 9 rounds, your students will …
- Assess the impacts of supply chain on a business
- Forecast demand and place purchase orders to maintain inventory levels
- Analyze scorecards to assess supplier performance
- Navigate unexpected supply chain disruptions
- Allocate inventory among retailers to maximize revenue
- Propose transportation methods to minimize lead time and cost
- Negotiate with supplies to reduce product cost
- Suggest warehouse locations to optimize network design
- Communicate with colleagues to demonstrate understanding of supply chain concepts
Employ students in
career-relevant learning
The Supply Chain Simternship allows your students to experience aspects of supply chain management that would only be attainable in a high-quality internship.
Over the course of nine rounds, your students will get hands-on experience forecasting demand, optimizing inventory, mitigating supply chain crises, and other essential tasks. Real-world data and individualized feedback help students practice making robust, data-driven decisions.
Hands-on Learning without the Hassle
Stukent Simternships integrate with your favorite LMS platforms
Single Sign-on
Grade Book Syncing
Deep Linking
Rostering
Practice, Meet Pedagogy
Pair your Simternship with Stukent courseware
Stukent courseware aligns with your Simternship, giving your students a solid foundation for success.
Stukent Courseware
Courseware that thinks
outside the textbook
Stukent courseware goes beyond the limitations of the printed textbook, pairing powerful instructional resources for you with an annually updated, concise text for students.
An Authoritative Text + Robust Instructional Resources
The Principles of Supply Chain
The “Principles of Supply Chain” courseware brings real-world applications of current supply chain concepts into your course! This comprehensive courseware bridges the gap between supply chain management theory and practice, giving students the knowledge they need to optimize production and inventory levels.
With turnkey resources created for educators, by educators, this courseware helps you teach an effective course and prepare students to manage supply chains successfully.
Key courseware learning objectives
In this courseware, your students will ...
- Help set up sourcing and procurement processes
- Find the optimal transportation route
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Apply the appropriate forecasting tool for
the situation
- Evaluate demand patterns and calculate the optimal demand
- Evaluate a site location
- Find the optimal transportation route
- Select and calculate KPIs
- Create resiliency plan
What’s Inside
Table of Contents
Explores the key components of supply chains, from cycles and decision-making processes to real-world cases and interconnected systems.
Introduces supply chain challenges and strategies, along with insights into Porter’s Five Forces for competitive analysis.
Examines the essentials of demand planning, key forecasting models, and how to evaluate them.
Covers sourcing, procurement strategies, and effective supplier management for optimized supply chains.
Examines the various types of inventory, management techniques, safety stock, reconciliation, and how economies of scale impact supply chains.
Explores inventory management modules, replenishment strategies, EOQ, classification models, just-in-time systems, and single-period models.
Navigates the role of transportation, its various types, infrastructure, policies, regulations, responsibilities, insurance, and key transportation decisions.
Explores the importance of space planning, warehouse site factors, network models, fleet and logistics management, and strategies for brick-and-mortar, online, and omnichannel operations.
Presents the functions, departments, and people involved in supply chains, including how to measure performance and the impact of Little’s Law.
Examines globalized supply chains, the offshore vs. onshore debate, managing global uncertainty, building resilient supply chains, and global support initiatives.
Explores the coordination of supply chains and the principles behind building sustainable practices.
Analyzes examples of both simple and complex supply chains, helping students understand their structures and challenges.
100+ Embedded Educator Resources
Everything you need to teach
your best course
- 34 Activities and assignments
- 24 Auto-graded assignments
- 12 Lesson plans
- 12 Auto-graded quizzes
- 12 Lecture slide decks
- 4 Expert sessions
- 2 Exams
Engaging
Students explore how supply chains aren’t limited to plants or warehouses, but are systems that deliver goods and services to consumers.
Helpful
Students learn about current industry jobs that relate to the principles they are learning.
Applicable
Students can apply learning to their classwork, internships, or jobs the next day.
Sample Syllabi
See how other professors are using
the Stukent Supply Chain Bundle!
Syllabus: Baylor University
BA 262: Supply Chain Management
Dr. Amy Pilcher integrated the Stukent Supply Chain Simternship and courseware into her curriculum.
Sample Syllabus from “Principles of Supply Chain Management and Operations”
Take a look at the customizable sample syllabus included in the “Principles of Supply Chain Management and Operations” courseware.
About the Author
Danaka Porter, M. ENG.
Regional Managing Partner at iota Consulting
Danaka obtained her Master’s of Engineering from MIT in systems and supply chain — which is just a fancy way of saying algorithm writing and process optimization. She is a partner at iota consulting, a management consulting firm, where she works in supply chain, project management, and data analytics in heavy manufacturing and technology.
Her work often includes ensures that Navy and Coast Guard vessels have the correct gear, as well as writing predictive algorithms for oil and gas companies or optimizing the supply chain of a global mine. Danaka is also a sessional lecturer at the Dhillon School of Business, where she teaches supply chain and project management.
Danaka is a cofounder and the COO of VitaNova Tech, a fertility company. She wrote the algorithms to better match surrogates and egg donors with intended parents.
Additionally, Danaka is completing her Ph.D. in cardiology at the Cumming School of Medicine, where she is using machine learning to help predict sudden cardiac death (SCD) by rewriting the algorithms used to find certain markers. Danaka sits on the Training and Education Committee for the Cardiac Arrhythmia Network of Canada, where she educates Ph.D.s, trainees, doctors, and health care workers in implementing and using technology in cardiac care.
She also sits on the board of motionball, a national fundraising committee dedicated to raising money for the Special Olympics. She looks after a variety of animals as an animal foster parent for her local Humane Society. Danaka routinely mentors high school and university students, helping them to find their passions. She is also an educational counselor with MIT, where she works with admissions to find the best applicants that align with MIT’s mission. She is a certified coach and helps those she works with to achieve their goals and dreams.
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