On November 15, 2024, the Department of Information Technologies PEF ČZU in Prague, in cooperation with the Faculty of Informatics and Management of UHK, Škoda Auto, as, SAP ČR and Axians, organized a competition, the essence of which was a logistics game, where each team represented an independent company on a virtual market.
In the second year of the competition, 68 competitors in a record number of 13 teams came to test their economic and managerial skills.
The goal of the simulation game was to establish suitable logistics strategies, in which it was necessary to supply the central warehouse with products from the supplier and the regional warehouses connected to the central warehouse. The sales of the products sold depended on an appropriately chosen pricing policy. Product prices had to be chosen with an appropriate margin to compete with other teams. The simulation game was implemented in the environment of the SAP S/4 HANA system. The contestants thus became familiar with the leading corporate information system.
All teams were awarded small items for their efforts. The winning teams were awarded a check with a financial reward and gifts from the PEF Department of Information Technologies, as well as from the Operations Faculty of the CZU in Prague and, last but not least, from Axians, SAP ČR and Škoda Auto, as, which co-organize the event.
Despite unexpected technical problems with the simulation game, a five-member team named Mid of feed and won a financial reward of CZK 25,000. The second place was won by the team named Code Crusaders and for the second place, the five-member team divided the amount of CZK 15,000. The beautiful third place was taken by the team named Synergistic cogregation of cognitive entities, whose members took home a reward worth CZK 10,000.
The winning teams, who achieved the highest value of the company, which depended not only on the profit from the sold goods, but also on the financial responsibility resulting from the level of indebtedness, are now awaiting major preparations for the national final of the competition, which will take place in the premises of the Škoda Service Training Center (STC) Kosmonosy / Mladá Boleslav on 6 December 2024. The winning teams from the school rounds will compete there, as well as teams from the University of Hradec in addition to the ČZU in Prague Králové, University of Mining and Technology - Technical University of Ostrava and University of Economics in Prague.
A big thank you goes especially to the co-organizers from UHK doc. Ing. To Pavlo Čech, Ph.D. and M.Sc. To Hana Rohrová, representatives of Axians, SAP ČR and Škoda Auto, as and colleagues from the Department of Information Technologies PEF ČZU in Prague.
