Supply Chain Simulations > Network Design
Master Supply Chain Network Design with Interactive Simulations
Linear supply chains are the exception, not the rule. Zensimu lets your teams design, test, and compare complex network configurations: multiple suppliers, factories, products, and customers - to find the structures that perform best under real-world conditions.
Explore supply chain network trade-offs with Zensimu
Should you consolidate into one factory or split production across two sites? Is dual sourcing worth the coordination cost? What happens when you integrate an acquired company's product portfolio? These are strategic questions that can't be answered in a spreadsheet alone.
Zensimu Network Design Simulations let participants experience the consequences of structural decisions: live, as a team, with real trade-offs playing out round by round.
What’s more, instructors are free to customize game scenarios based on specific industry or company challenges, dynamics, and environment.
With Zensimu’s intuitive and immersive simulations, participants quickly learn how to:
Evaluate the trade-offs of centralised vs. distributed network structures.
Understand how adding suppliers, sites, or products affects coordination and cost.
Experience how information flows - or breaks - across complex structures.
Test network configurations before committing to real-world changes.
Zensimu Network Design simulations are challenging, educational, and fun!
Easy to start and host, our simulations assign up to 200 participants grouped in teams of 2-8, each managing a node in a multi-tier network — a factory, a distribution centre, a supplier, or a retail outlet.
The goal is to serve multiple customers and manage multiple products while keeping total network costs under control.
Coordination is everything. With shared suppliers, competing demand, and limited visibility across the network, teams must communicate, prioritise, and make structural trade-offs together.
Examples of advanced supply chain disruptions that can be simulated with Zensimu:
Capacity constraints
Single vs. dual sourcing
Collaboration
Network resilience
Bills of Materials (BOM)
Multi-channel demand allocation
Product portfolio & SKU mix
Zensimu-powered classroom and training sessions in 3 easy steps!
1. Setting up
Instructors have an extensive set of options for designing a custom network: choose how many suppliers, production sites, distribution nodes, products, and customer channels to include, and tailor the scenario to your strategic challenges.
2. Hosting
Once your game is set up, you can send player invites and launch your game in a matter of seconds!
3. Debriefing
The game may be over, but the learning is not! Review automatically generated post-game analysis and statistics.
Technical requirements? Not so much.
Instructors and players just need to access a web browser on their phones or computers with a stable internet connection.
Zensimu provides supportive powerpoint files, explanatory videos, and instantly creates debriefing reports and charts, plus PDF and Excel exports, at the end of each game.
Zensimu for every occasion
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In-company training session, team-building workshop, project kickoff meeting, onboarding program, strategic planning sessions
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University training programs, bootcamps, contests across universities, introductory courses
Consultation and Client Engagement
Sales demo, Kickoff client's presentation, Client-focused workshops, Coaching sessions
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