Simulate supplier failures, demand shocks, and procurement crises — then see exactly what happens next. This is Supply Chain Disaster: for students and early-career professionals who learn by surviving it, not memorizing it.
When I started out in supply chain, I had the credentials — the forecasting models, the EOQ and reorder-point formulas, the textbook definition of the bullwhip effect. What I didn't have was any idea what to actually do the morning a supplier went dark two weeks before a shipment, or when demand spiked and every number in my carefully built spreadsheet was suddenly wrong.
University taught me the concepts. It never taught me the decisions. The coursework was clean and predictable; the real world was faster, messier, and unforgiving — it punished hesitation in ways no exam ever did. I learned the hard way: on the job, under pressure, with real money and real consequences on the line.
Supply Chain Disaster is the trainer I wish I'd had back then — a place to make the expensive mistakes in a simulation instead of in your career, and to build the instinct that only comes from living through the crisis before it's your job on the line.
— Ahmad Faruqi, Founder
Electronics, FMCG, or Pharma. Each with unique dynamics and risk profiles that change everything about how you play.
Procurement, supplier selection, pricing strategy, quality inspection across 4 scenarios per chapter. Every choice has a cost.
Crisis events, demand shocks, supplier failures. Your decisions ripple through the chain in real time — just like the real world.
Reading about the bullwhip effect and causing it yourself are two different kinds of understanding. This gives you the second one.
Make a forecasting or ordering mistake. Watch demand and inventory amplify through the network in real time — the same P&G Pampers phenomenon that costs real companies millions. Then understand why it happened.
Over-order. Under-forecast. Single-source a critical supplier. Experience the consequences safely — then carry the intuition into a real job before it costs you one.
Supplier failure. Demand spikes. Lead-time shocks. Inventory shortages. Cash pressure. Scenarios drawn from real supply chain crises, not hypotheticals.
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Yes — all 10 chapters are completely free to play, no account required, no download needed. Full Access ($49.99 one-time) adds the 5-page Advanced Report and your Certificate of Completion. One purchase, lifetime access.
A supply chain phenomenon where small fluctuations in consumer demand amplify dramatically upstream — a 5% demand increase at retail can translate to 40%+ overordering at the manufacturing level. You experience it directly in Chapter 2.
Yes, as a practice supplement. The game maps to all three CSCP domains (SCPE, SCD, SCIBP), and each chapter ends with an exam-ready flashcard covering a key concept — MAPE, bullwhip effect, safety stock formulas, TCO, SCRM, and more. Supply Chain Disaster is an independent learning tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official product of ASCM/APICS.
About 10–15 minutes per chapter. The full 10-chapter campaign takes approximately 2.5 hours. You can save and resume at any time.
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