Operations Lab: 24 games about operations and supply chains

Operations management is mostly taught with formulas. You can pass an exam in inventory control without ever having tried the trade-off between too much and too little on the shelf.

Every game follows three rules:

• One concept per game
• Scoring is set so that a naive strategy scores close to zero
• The optimal answer is shown only after the player has locked in a decision

24 short games of a few minutes each: the newsvendor, the bottleneck, the reorder point, the queue, overbooking, the learning curve and more. On top of them sits Aftershock, a five-phase project on disaster response in which earlier choices constrain later ones.

Everything runs in the browser. There is no account, and saved games stay in the player's own browser.

The portal is live at games.sesnas.com. A new game takes about five days from concept to release, and more are added when a topic from the degree can be played.