Experience
The impact of value chain management on business performance in a competitive simulation environment. Experience the importance of cross-functional and strategic alignment for a high-performing value chain!
Here's How
These days life is restricted, everyone is looking for a way to escape.
Stay connected, develop your skills & meet your peers from around the globe!
We Develop Value Chain Leaders
The Fresh Connection (TFC) is the world’s leading online Value Chain strategy game. It is also the name of a fictional fruit juice producer on the brink of collapse.
Many professionals from reputable companies have preceded you in recent years:
About The Fresh Connection
Participants run this virtual company in teams of four. Their biggest challenge is to collaborate as a team to make the best strategic and tactical decisions for the Value Chain of The Fresh Connection, in order to save it from the abyss. Team members will learn that alignment is key, whilst at the same time they will improve their end-to-end value chain understanding.
Key Take Aways
Virtual Teamwork
Work together in teams of 4 to manage the end-to-end value chain. Work in a virtual team online with peers of the RPX club from around the globe. Each team member gets a role in the virtual company. Seize the opportunity for cross-cultural collaboration in a diverse setting!
Learning & Development
Learn and Develop by drawing out key challenges and issues in Team Dynamics and Value Chain Trade Offs. Improve your end-to-end value chain understanding. Collaboration in virtual teams and access to e-learning to add extra dimension to developing your soft and hard skills.
Learn by Experience Online | Collaborate in a virtual team
A complex world requires experiential learning
Register
Sign up as an individual for EUR 50.
Connect with RPX players worldwide and get to know your team!
Program
5 rounds of The Fresh Connection (Team interaction: 8 hours)
6 Debrief Videos & RPX Pro community (2-3 hours)
Duration
Self-paced online course
Time schedule depends on your team!
A new course starts every Monday at 2 PM CEST
Course expiration: one month after start date
Optional Preparation Modules
E-Learning modules from the Value Chain Academy
Topics: SC Strategy, S&OP/IBP and Inventory Management
Price: EUR 25 per module including Certificate
Testimonials
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This addictive game allowed us to spend unforgettable moments and to acquire knowledge that will last through time. The only regret is that it’s over, because I had really grown fond of our regular interactions. We are now equipped with new tools to succeed. Nelly Jourdren, Supply Chain Project Manager at Sephora (LVMH)
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We sell in Europe and we source from across the globe, this is an excellent platform for learning the importance of collaboration across the extended supply chain. Peter Surtees – Director of European Supply Chain at Kimberly-Clark.
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The Fresh Connection was a challenging test of decision making, commercial awareness and learning agility that requires each individual to understand the impact of their role and actions on the profitability of the whole business. Adam Lockwood – Supply Development Manager at Mars UK
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The only time I have trouble getting my students out of the classroom is when we're playing The Fresh Connection. Dr. Roberto Perez-Franco – Director, MIT Supply Chain Strategy Lab
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My colleagues and I are all in the same boat: the boat will not go faster when any department or I outperform the rest of the crew. The Fresh Connection showed us in a very entertaining environment that a company needs a culture that promotes the adoption of a shared business strategy. Adil Kara, Supply Chain Manager at EVYAP
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Both the participating team and the entire organization recognized, that communication and good interdisciplinary knowledge of the participants are of immense importance in striving for an excellent and business efficient S&OP process. Ewa Wawer-Modrakowska, Supply Chain Manager at Valeo Service Eastern Europe
Registration
Register as an individual and you will be assigned to your team when the course start. A team consists of 4 participants. Each member will take a different role in the virtual company (your decision). We make the teams and you make the team work!
Price
We aim to keep people connected in these challenging times and are offering RPX at only a fraction of the original price.
RPX experience: €50 (85% discount!) excluding PayPal fee.
Register now – Pay later
Payment via PayPal (instructions sent by email after registration).
Duration
Self-paced online course
Time schedule depends on your team
A new course starts every Monday at 2 PM CEST
Course expires one month after your start date.
E-Learning
Optional E-learning modules
Price: €25 per module including certificate.
Available for purchase after registration
(instructions sent by email after registration)
Time schedule RPX online experience
A new RPX experience starts every Monday at 2 PM CEST!
This course is self-paced, meaning you can create your own time schedule together with your team!
- Your course expires one month after your start date, meaning that you have one month to finish all 5 rounds whenever it seems more fit for you and your team. Want to finish all rounds in 1 day or in 4 weeks? No problem at all.
- You have complete freedom to decide with your team when to meet up and when to play each round, but make sure to take into account your course expiration date.
- After your course expires, you will no longer be able to access the business simulation or debrief videos.
- Tip: When planning, take differences in time zones into account!
*At the start of each round when you enter the simulation you get an information screen with the entry code for your Instruction or Debrief Video.
Friday Meet & Greet at the virtual bar in aula
Every month we will organize a virtual Meet & Greet in Aula where you can have a chat in the bar and get to know all of your RPX peers!
Meet & Greet in Aula. Source: https://www.vcommsolutions.com/en/home/