Read the situation, see what the optimiser does, then decide whether to follow it or overrule it.
Goods flow left to right. A disrupted node pulses. The relief zone is the humanitarian corridor: watch what happens to it in round 4.
Optimiser alone
Decides on cost. No human review.Human in the loop
The optimiser advises. A person decides.--
Pick one. Matching the optimiser is a legitimate answer, and the two tracks will simply stay level.
About this tool
The concept
An optimiser is very good at the question it is given. If the question is cost, it will answer cost, and it will answer it in places a person would hesitate. This game runs the same five disruptions twice, once with the machine deciding alone and once with a person able to overrule it, so the difference between the two tracks is the value of human judgment rather than an opinion about it.
How it works
Five rounds: port congestion, supplier failure, demand spike, a flood that cuts a relief corridor, and a cyber incident. Each round shows the optimiser move first, then asks for yours. Three measures move together, service level, resilience and stakeholder trust, and combine into one SC 5.0 index. Cost is tracked separately, because the cheap answer is usually the one under examination.
Winning strategy
There is no fixed winner. Follow the optimiser every round and the tracks finish level, which is the honest result of that strategy. The round to argue about is the flood: abandoning the relief zone is cheaper and scores well on service, and it costs trust that takes the rest of the game to rebuild. Decide what you are optimising for before you answer it.
Deterministic scenario built for OMGT2384 Supply Chain 5.0, RMIT College of Business and Law. Figures are teaching values, not company data.