L'Oréal Supply Chain
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work
Based on this fact, Mr. Saif Salem, the head of the supply chain department at L'Oréal Egypt, derived his vision in managing his team. His vision is making his team more collaborative and celebrate their greater achievements in supply chain. Thus, Mr. Saif took his teaminto a learning trip at a famous resort in Fayoum to work with them on supply chain simulation, which was delivered by Symbios Consulting team.
Therefore, they can develop their skills and reflect on their supply chain future performance enhancement. In coordination with the HR team at L'Oréal | Egypt, Symbios Consultant designed a very famous and interesting distribution simulation called “Beer Game” in order to simulate the challenges and issues of supply chain from manufacturing to shelf. Symbios team started the game by dividing all the participants from different departments into teams focusing on problems that may be raised due to the lack of visibility.
During the simulation day, the team went through several rounds of the simulations. They calculated the cost of supply chain and made a reflection on their supply chain issues. Furthermore, they made briefing notes and reflected on their day to day challenges. Mr. Saif was very pleased with the interaction as a result of the enthusiastic and energy of his team. It is worth mentioning that, the “Beer Game” is an international game and Symbios Consultant do many games for corporations to mimic their problems on games. One game may last for a day but it simulates years of problems in the real life and the participants in such game can share knowledge with each other.