Universidad de Lima

A team of students from the Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Program at the University of Lima has advanced to the final round of the Global Student Challenge 2022. This competition is organized by Inchainge, a Dutch company specialized in virtual simulators and platforms that facilitates the implementation of different knowledge, skills and competencies related to logistics and supply chains. The Global Final will be held from April 30 to May 6, 2022.

In this 8th edition of the competition, our students Celeste Acosta Bobadilla, Anghela Chunga Cruz, Alessandro Borja Valenzuela and Walter Carlos Musayón used The Fresh Connection platform to qualify for the Global Final. This simulator recreates various logistics and supply chain processes, which facilitate training sessions that resemble real-life experiences. Moreover, The Fresh Connection promotes teamwork and collaboration, which has a positive impact on the results and allows a better understanding of the importance of a good interaction between a company’s areas.

Since 2021, The Fresh Connection has been used in the Supply Chain Management subject taught in the ninth level of the Ulima’s Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Program. The students of the team took this subject in academic term 2021-2, which was taught by Professor Carla Fajardo Pérez-Vargas, being Professor Martín Collao Díaz the subject coordinator. Concerning the competition and the qualification to the final phase, Celeste Acosta Bobadilla commented:

“It is a totally enriching experience in which the training provided by the University of Lima is key. Thanks to the lessons and advice of Professor Carla Fajardo, we solved the case proposed in the competition and achieved a positive Return on Investment (ROI). We appreciate that this experience makes us think on how our decisions correct or impair a company’s performance, and allows us to implement our knowledge in a situation that we might face in the future”.

Throughout the editions of the Global Student Challenge, more than 700 universities from approximately 100 countries around the world have participated in the event, always with the objective of developing optimal procedures in a supply chain.