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Supply chain education is evolving fast. Across our conversations and our recent educator survey, a consistent reality emerges: the need to align course content with a fast-changing industry, keeping students engaged with short attention spans, managing assessment workload, and integrating new technologies such as AI are among the core challenges in modern supply chain teaching.  

The pressure to modernize is real, yet time, resources, and budget remain limited. 

These realities are reshaping what supply chain education requires today, and they are central to how we are evolving our support for universities worldwide. 

Strengthening the Supply Chain Learning Experience 

Over the past 15 years, we have worked closely with companies across the supply chain field and brought those industry needs directly into higher education.  Our world-leading business simulations have equipped universities with the tools to teach supply chain in a way that is applied, engaging, and aligned with industry reality. Nearly half a million learners have taken part in our learning experiences, and educators in more than a hundred countries rely on our solutions to teach the topics that define modern supply chain practice, including end-to-end supply chain management, sustainability, circularity, and working capital.  

This foundation remains the core of who we are, and we are building on it with intention. Guided by the needs of our educator community and the rapid shifts across both industry and higher education, we are strengthening our offering to help institutions deliver experiential learning that is more scalable, more coherent, and better aligned across the full multi-year bachelor journey.   

What’s New?  

These new developments strengthen the scalability, coherence, and future-readiness of experiential learning in supply chain programs, all while reducing pressure on faculty workloads. 

Three New AI Add-ons: Automated Personalized Feedback

AI is reshaping how students learn, reflect, and engage with course material.  

Our AI Portfolio introduces three optional add-ons that turn AI into a teaching ally:

• AI Dynamic Debriefs (New) – Turns each decision round into a learning moment with personalized, scenario-based feedback from virtual managers, helping students reflect and connect theory to practice.  

• Belbin AI Team Roles Feedback (New) – Uses the Belbin Team Roles framework to reveal team dynamics, perception gaps, and collaboration patterns, helping students strengthen communication and teamwork. 

• AI Tutor (Available January 2026)  – An intelligent, chat-based assistant that guides students through reflection and reasoning, promoting critical thinking and deeper understanding without giving answers away.   

Why this matters: By combining simulation-based learning with these AI add-ons, educators can deliver meaningful personalized feedback, encourage meaningful reflection, save time on repetitive facilitation tasks, and scale experiential learning across cohorts.

The Grading Support Tool: Reducing one of the Greatest Workload Pressures

Assessment is one of the most time-consuming parts of teaching applied supply chain courses. Large cohorts, team-based decision making, and limited TA support make it difficult to grade fairly, consistently, and efficiently. The result is pressure on faculty time and uneven student feedback. 

The Grading Support Tool offers a clear, scalable way to assess individual performance in simulation-based courses (Available starting February 2026): 

• It breaks down each student’s contribution using transparent, data-driven indicators. 

• It provides a clear, structured scoring approach that aligns with academic expectations. 

• It reduces manual work by centralizing results, insights, and justification in one performance report with just one click.  

Why this matters:
Individual assessment has long been a pain point in experiential learning. This tool makes grading more consistent, transparent, and manageable across cohorts, allowing faculty to maintain academic rigor without the administrative burden. 

A Compact Module for Beginners: Introduction to Supply Chain Management

First-year supply chain courses often face large cohorts, limited time, and students arriving with very different levels of understanding. To make early learning more practical and scalable, we are introducing a new compact module: Introduction to Supply Chain Management, available starting February 2026. 

This beginner-friendly simulation-based experience, powered by The Fresh Connection, gives students their first hands-on encounter with how a supply chain works in a realistic environment. Through four functional blocks, they make real decisions and immediately see their impact across the chain, building a clear understanding of cause and effect from the start.      

Designed to fit flexibly within 6–12 teaching hours, the module is easy to integrate into existing courses as it aligns and requires minimal preparation. It combines individual gameplay with structured learning materials that support both facilitated and unfacilitated teaching.  

Why this matters: 

Strong foundations in the first year determine the quality of learning that follows. This module gives institutions a reliable, scalable way to build those foundations early, ensuring students enter advanced courses better prepared and more confident. 

A Scalable and Integrated Program for Supply Chain Education

These developments strengthen our complete program offering and give institutions a clearer, more aligned way to deliver experiential learning across the full bachelor journey. The structure is simple: 

• The Core brings together our 18 simulation-based learning solutions in a coherent structure that universities can tailor to their curriculum. Programs can start with first-year foundations like Introduction to Supply Chain Management, and select from the advanced and specialized topics that fit their learning goals. This creates a consistent and applied learning journey from year one to graduation.  
• The Essentials include everything required to teach with confidence: onboarding, teaching materials, Train the Trainer programs, 24/7 technical support, student certificates, and access to the global student challenge. Faculty receive support from course design to delivery to evaluation.  
• The Add-ons offer targeted tools that enhance learning and reduce workload. The Grading Support Tool brings clarity to individual assessment, while AI Dynamic Debriefs, Belbin AI Team Roles Feedback, and the upcoming AI Tutor strengthen reflection and understanding at scale. 

Together, these elements create a future-ready program offering that supports educators, improves curriculum alignment, and makes experiential learning more scalable than ever. 

Learn What’s New at Inchainge 

We are hosting a series of “What’s New at Inchainge” webinars, offered at different times and in multiple languages to fit your schedule. During these sessions, our product specialists and education advisors will walk you through the new developments, show practical examples of how they can fit into your program, and answer your questions live.   

If you want to explore how this strengthened program offering can support your teaching, we invite you to join us. 

Register for the webinar and discover what’s new.