Business development opportunities utilising The Fresh Connection?
The Fresh Connection is an enriching and educational experience that provides a realistic and competitive environment to test competencies and build effective teams. The Fresh Connection is an excellent inducement to sharpen up your theoretical knowledge and insights, and powerful way to engage stakeholders to initiate improvement.
Learning with The Fresh Connection can be structured to meet desired learning outcomes by customising learning modules that are used to supplement the use of the simulation. Some typical learning topics include: Structured Decision Making Processes such as Sales & Operations Planning, Demand Management, Supplier Selection and Relationship Management, Supply Chain Strategy and Alignment, and Integrated decision making.
The Mechanics
The Fresh Connection requires participants to make strategic and tactical decisions to save the fictional company- The Fresh Connection- from financial ruin.
Participating in teams of four representing the functional roles of Operations, Purchasing, Sales, and Supply Chain, The Fresh Connection provides a meaningful learning experience that highlights the need for structured decision making processes such as Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), breaks down functional silos fostering collaboration and partnerships, exposes means to effectively put strategy into action, makes collaboration measurable, and addresses contemporary business issues and trade-offs.
Education, behavioral change, team work, collaboration and partnership - all values which are entrenched in The Fresh Connection.
Learning Formats
Ranging from a focus on team building and partnerships, through to corporate strategy and structured communication processes such as S&OP, the varying depths of learning experience include:
- Open competition: Ideal for team building and increasing cross-functional awareness of the end-to-end Supply Chain.
- In-company workshops: Can be structured between half a day and even multiple months and includes learning interventions to support the use of the simulation.Typically engaging a crossfunctional group of Middle or Senior Managers, some of the key learning’s include strategy into action, structured communication, the need for collaboration, demand management, product rationalisation, and tradeoffs.
- Integration into ongoing in-company learning programs: Leading organisation around the world have identified the value of The Fresh Connection as a tool to engage management, teach core competencies, build partnerships, improve collaboration, manage change, and drive company profitability through achieving a shared vision and alignment through the organisation.
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