Storewars provides companies with a great tool to train their managers to become better decision-makers.
Ability to make decisions, and awareness of the consequences of them, is vital for every employee in today's fast-moving business environment - the risks can be huge, and new strategy investments can prove extremely costly.
How Storewars works
Bring together managers from different parts of your business
Make them work in multifunctional teams and manage a virtual business
Let them experience a 1,5 year of decision making "from the top"
The simulation software will show the result of their effectiveness
FMCG market simulator
the core of the program
The learning process is being operated by the advanced business simulation software. We design it using the 20-year experience of the largest consumer-facing companies and the market data.
Here is what participants are working with during the course:
Retailers
Company strategy and profitability Store service level Shelf space management Category management Private label Market analysis, demand planning Pricing Promotions Inventory management Supplier management, negotiations Competitor analysis
Manufacturers
Company strategy and profitability Brand strategy and objectives Portfolio management Category management Production planning Market analysis, demand planning R&D, New brand launch Trade marketing Inventory management Negotiations Competitor analysis
Program concept
Participants are divided into 5 teams: 2 retail and 3 manufacturing companies
Each team manages a multimillion-dollar business for a virtual period of 1-1,5 years
Participants are taken through the full company's cycle running a virtual business from A to Z working as a team online
Teams compete to capture the maximum market share and increase profitability of their businesses
Teams interact and cooperate with each other, and the success of their cooperation has a major impact on the results
Storewars simulation shows the market responce to safely test decisions and analyze profitability of their strategies
The ways to use Storewars
Mini-MBA for your team
Storewars covers the full FMCG strategy cycle: from analyzing industry data, company's global strategy development and execution to monitoring its results.
Real teambuilding
What would your employees learn if they switch seats with someone from a different department? Storewars program does just that - one-of-a-kind experience with no risks assumed.
Sales team boost
Storewars enables participants to examine trade issues from both retailer and manufacturer perspectives, helping to drive a profitable partnership.
You and your trade partners
Invite your trade partners to learn together! Participants work together on the virtual market while improving the understanding of the real business, which creates a solid platform for a successful partnership.
Cross-department alignment
Managers from different departments switch roles in an intensive business game designed to boost cooperation and form a better understanding of the company's operations from different perspectives.
Next strategic event
Are your company events turning into learning experiences? Include Storewars as a part of your next annual conference or planning session to encourages your team to share ideas and consider different ways to reach company's goals.
Advantages
Business simulation experience
The standard classroom training or webinars don't work well as they don't stimulate experiential learning. Simulation provides a platform for practical experience of solving the real business issues.
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Real-like learning environment
Storewars software generates the virtual business environment and replicates the complex interplay between manufacturers, retailers and consumers. Participants work with real data, real people and real business cases.
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Helicopter view
Escaping from their typical 'silo view', executives get an overview of the entire company, that allows them to explore how decisions in manufacturing, procurement, R&D, sales and marketing link to financial outcomes and the creation of shareholder value.
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Risk-free environment
Storewars is a platform where managers safely test their decisions. It allows them to try out new ideas or react to challenges they face on a virtual level with no risk to your company.
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Client feedback
"Thank you very much for the probably best training session! I liked the course being close to the real situation, because of time limitation, tension and huge information blizzard"
Normunds Ozolim
Sales Director, Aldaris
"Thank you for the great job done. Fantastic 3 days. Worth every minute spent here"
Edgars Eglitis
Rimi Baltic
"Negotiations: it was nice to negotiate with the boss! The game & its reports were extremely motivating and kept me engaged the whole time"
Ahmed Al Akber
Philip Morris
"Beside its direct focus, this training program has one more important goal - it is teambuilding. This is 2-in-1 training!"
Lesnichaya
Lukoil
"Conditions of the program have been very close to reality, the mood of the players to win led to believe that everything happens for real"
Anna Zakharova
Senior analyst, IRG
"Storewars is an excellent opportunity to assess the FMCG business from different parties; minimum of theory - maximum of practice"
Evgeniy Strakhov
KA manager, Imperial Tobacco
"It gave us the opportunity of making decisions and quickly seeing the implications & consequences on our business and on the market in general. It also helped us to see things from a totally different perspective, as we change roles, responsibilities and knowledge"
Ronald Howes
ADV Group
"It was a great experience to know how business is running. Simulation with zero money risks & experience through interaction between all team members"
Abdallah Ali
IFFCO
Interested in Storewars in-house program?
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