Serious Game in Annecy: save a business using the Demand Driven method

Bringing together economic actors at the heart of regions around a scenario dedicated to best practices in Supply Chain Management is what the French Association of Supply Chain Management AfrSCM offers with its partner BEVOLTA, on 27 June in Annecy.

On the agenda for this special day, organised following a morning dedicated to industrial flows on 1 June at the initiative of the Alpes Supply Chain association: testing, through a scenario that brings together all functions of the company – purchasing, sales, production, supply chain and finance – the rescue and recovery of a company, using the Demand Driven method. This approach, originating in the United States and developed in France over the past decade, aims, in an increasingly uncertain context, to connect the company more to real demand in a pull flow logic.

This methodology, at the heart of the BEVOLTA solution, has been tested by AfrSCM within its SME and large member companies. It produces spectacular results, particularly in increasing service levels, reducing inventories and Working Capital Requirement (BFR).

During this day, participants will learn in particular how to size stock buffers with the DDMRP methodology, which places strategic decoupling points in the flow to mitigate the variability of the supply chain upstream and downstream. Participants will thus be able to experience the decision-making process of a management committee that aligns its strategy with its operations to become a Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise (DDAE).

Here in Figeac during a previous Serious Game. Four teams of professionals were represented at the Figeac Training Centre: FIGEAC AERO, EUROPE SERVICE, VISCONTI PARTNERS and MECANIC VALLEE from local or group management functions, in supply chain, commerce, industrialisation, purchasing, project, quality. FIGEAC AERO came with its employees to test the Serious Game.

The day is hosted by Caroline Mondon, an international expert in Supply Chain Management, director of development of the Francophone Association of Supply Chain Management AfrSCM. For more information and to register, visit the event page.

An initiative supported by the Territoires d'industrie programme, under the theme "Contribute to reindustrialising France".