Supply Chain

Supply Chain (“Networking” & “Source or Sink”)    Combines two applications into one package: “Networking” & “Source or Sink”     • A versatile and flexible tool to mirror the complexities of organisational structure and explore the dynamics of customer-supplier relationships  • Both practical and visual  • Illustrates the effects of organisational structure on communication within a team  • Demonstrates the need to create awareness of customer expectationCOMBINES TWO APPLICATIONS INTO ONE PACKAGE:
 “NETWORKING” & “SOURCE OR SINK”

Supply Chain illustrates the complexities of working within organisations and the need to balance personal, functional and organisational goals and targets in order to be successful.

Supply Chain introduces participants to the potential conflict between individual and team goals. It also depicts the significance of networking and its critical role in team performance. Supply Chain raises significant questions about the network of relationships within the team and the team’s contact with other key groups inside and outside of the business. The effects of individual actions can have a considerable impact on others in the team and good project co-ordination is required to ensure a successful outcome.

Supply Chain:

  • Illustrates the impact of ‘unseen’ decision making upon a large structure
  • Develops skills in diagnosing and resolving problems in and making efficient use of customer/supplier relationships
  • Enables users to quickly and actively define working relationships in a safe environment
  • Offers the opportunity to adapt thinking styles and procedure in order to maintain effective networks