You Win! Gaming Reinforces Supply Chain Upskilling
From badges to patches, current and future supply chain practitioners rack up achievements and winning moves.
AWS launched new solution assignments to build practical generative artificial intelligence skills in its 3D role-playing game, AWS Cloud Quest. Players can choose their role—cloud practitioner, generative AI specialist, serverless developer, solutions architect, machine learning specialist, security specialist, data analytics specialist, or networking specialist—then learn and apply cloud skills to help the citizens of this virtual city. Once users finish all the assignments in their role, they get to showcase their achievement with a digital badge.
Girl Scouts of the USA started a new patch program, made possible by DHL Supply Chain, to build logical reasoning and problem-solving skills. From planning cookie delivery routes to inventing new gadgets, the challenge-based activity program aims to help Girl Scouts build key skills like creative thinking, teamwork, and problem-solving, giving future supply chain professionals a peek into how logistics keeps the world moving.
AutoScheduler’s Warehouse Game is a deceptively simple simulation that teaches a hard truth: You can’t do everything at once in a warehouse. You have limited labor, few doors, and incoming orders that don’t wait. Players quickly realize that success depends on sequencing tasks, resolving conflicts, and choosing where to prioritize. That’s logistics in a nutshell.
Games that sharpen your ability to manage constraints, think ahead, and react to real-time changes make you better at logistics:
🎮 Factorio (a game in which you build and maintain factories)
🎮 SpaceChem (also a factory-building game, where you transform raw materials into chemical products)
🎮 StarCraft (a real-time strategy game)
🎮 Pandemic (a cooperative battle board game where you try
to save humanity)
-Keith Moore, CEO, AutoScheduler.AI