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"Winning Margin™" is a proven and popular manufacturing board-based simulation.

 

 

What does "Winning Margin™" do ?

 "Winning Margin™" gives participants experience of how business works by:

  •  Demonstrating the relationship between
    • Business planning
    • Market and product development
    • Process choice
  • Identifying the financial consequences of these decisions through the examination of :
    • The balance sheet and the profit and loss account
    • Working capital control
    • Cash management
    • Cost management
    • Long term funding options
    • Investment appraisal

How does "Winning Margin™" work ?

Being board based, participants take a 'hands on' role in determining the financial performance of their business. They are able to see the financial implications of their decisions by the use of cost carriers containing counters, which represent their investment and costs.

The group of participants are divided into management teams of 4-5 members, which each run a competing business.

 The principle roles are :

  • Marketing and Sales
  • Purchasing 
  • Production
  • Financial management

What does "Winning Margin™" achieve ?

"Winning Margin™" enables each team to test and improve the effectiveness of their management planning and decision making, and their understanding of the need for :

  • Close communication between the management roles and effective team building
  • Effective synchronised planning and control of resource requirements at each stage of the supply chain
  • Synergy between all functions of business
  • Effective
    • financial reporting, which reflects the business performance
    • finance management in terms of both profit and cash

Training Workshops

  • Finance & Business Awareness

  • Personal & Managerial skills

  • Purchasing skills

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