This document provides tips for collaborating effectively and understanding game logic in Fresh Connection. It recommends that teams 1) read about their roles and explain them to each other to collaborate well. Teams should make decisions together, considering the perspectives of different roles. It also advises 2) understanding that the game has programmed logic and limits, requiring a strategic approach. Teams must know how each role's decisions impact one another. Finally, it suggests 3) reading the finance page to understand ROI, as changing one parameter may not directly impact ROI but have various effects through related factors like supplier quality and inventory levels.

1. Fresh Connection Tips
1. Collaboration
I would suggest, first read everything about your role and try to understand. Then come together and
shortly explain each other’s role's to the team. This would be a good start. After this, on each round you
should give the decisions together. I know it sounds like a hard work but this will make everything easier.
Example decision making: Operations realizes there is so many open pallet locations (the cube utilization
is low in the raw materials) Then he or she can easily decrease the pallet locations to solve the issue. BUT
BEFORE s/he should ask…
To Supply Chain: Are you changing the lot size? Are you changing the Safety Stock?
To Purchasing: Are you changing the trade units?
To Sales: Are we expecting higher /lower demand?
OR; instead of changing the pallet locations, s/he can say to Supply Chain: Feel free to increase the safety
stocks; we have more pallet locations to utilize.
2. Game Logic
In this game you should only consider the information given in the portal. And you should always
consider that this is a computer game (which means it has a logic behind), so best is to understand this
logic first.
i. You should know that you have a company and it has limits. This means, you cannot do everything in
the highest level. You have to decide on a strategy and implement that one.
ii. This one is important: You should know the decisions of every role and collaborate with each other.
There is no way to success in another way.
iii. You should listen to the game. Like I've said before, the game has a programmed logic. And it will
work according to its working principle. Consider every note, e-mail and information given.
vi. You will have to make calculations (use excel). Make sure you know how many pallets of product you
are receiving every week.
P.S. : For example you should calculate your average pallet locations in the warehouses, and the inputs
for that are demand (sales), raw material's lot sizes and safety stocks (supply chain), and trade units (
purchasing). According to calculations operations chooses the pallet locations. There is no one true
answer. Numbers will differ according to your strategy. Make sure you have your calculations on excel
and there is no way you will fail 

2. 3. ROI
To understand ROI, best thing to do is reading the Finance page.
Because one parameter you change will not directly affect the ROI.
Let's say you increased the contact indexes of raw materials by changing some parameters. Most likely it
is because you have chosen better quality suppliers with higher delivery reliability.
Effects will be:
-Raw materials cost will increase (--ROI)
-Rejected raw materials will decrease (++ROI)
-Better delivery reliability will allow you to better plan the pallet locations, thus you may not experience
stock outs and/ or overflow in the warehouse (++ROI)
Best luck and have fun 
Merve Nur Tas