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The Vaccine Run — Cold-Chain & Coverage at SuryaHealth

A four-round, advanced healthcare-operations simulation set inside SuryaHealth Logistics Pvt. Ltd., a Pune-based not-for-profit running the cold-chain and last-mile distribution arm of a state immunisation programme across 11 districts of western Maharashtra (38 cold-chain points, 22 vehicles, ₹46 crore budget).

4 rounds Executive English, Español

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About this simulation

A four-round, advanced healthcare-operations simulation set inside SuryaHealth Logistics Pvt. Ltd., a Pune-based not-for-profit running the cold-chain and last-mile distribution arm of a state immunisation programme across 11 districts of western Maharashtra (38 cold-chain points, 22 vehicles, ₹46 crore budget).

Two weeks before a 6-week measles-rubella catch-up campaign for 210,000 children, the central allocation lands 18% short and a do-nothing plan projects only 82% coverage against a funder target of ≥90%, with a structural 19-point hill-vs-urban coverage gap.

Playing the operations team under a fixed ₹3.8 crore logistics envelope and a 3,400 vial-equivalent cold-chain capacity, you (1) diagnose the network — finding the demand-heavy urban 'pullers', the coverage-starved hill blocks, and the open-vial wastage that makes effective supply far smaller than nominal supply; (2) set inventory and safety stock under an equity-weighted service level, choosing how much buffer to hold centrally versus push to the edge; (3) choose the distribution route — hub-and-spoke milk-runs, dedicated remote runs, or a mixed motorcycle-cold-box leg — within the cold-chain breach limit and the budget; and (4) write an explicit triage rule for the last dose and stress-test it against a mid-campaign shock, presenting a final coverage / equity / cost-per-dose-delivered scorecard.

The newsvendor-under-perishability math (Sarang Deo / Max Institute healthcare-operations analytics) rewards equity-weighted allocation, wastage-aware sizing, edge buffer for un-resuppliable hill blocks, cold-chain-respecting routing, and a written equity triage rule — and measurably punishes the five classic errors: throughput tunnel vision, ignoring wastage, over-centralising buffer, cost-only routing that breaches the cold chain, and defaulting to first-come-first-served.

Final KPIs track Coverage %, Hill-vs-Urban Equity Gap, Effective Supply, and Cost per Dose Delivered against the ₹3.8 crore cap.

Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Where will this network actually fail first?
  • How sharply do you target the data at the structural failure point rather than spreading attention evenly? (%)
  • What service level do you assign across site types?
  • Split the safety-stock buffer between central store and edge (must total 100%)
  • How do you handle multi-dose vials in the thin hill sessions?
  • Design the distribution route within the 3,400 vial-equiv. capacity and the 4-hour cold-chain breach limit.
  • Extra dedicated remote cycles to add this round (₹0.62 lakh each)
  • How hard do you protect the cold-chain clock (refrigeration, dry-ice top-ups, route timing)? (%)
  • Publish the triage rule: who gets the last dose when a site runs low?
  • Mid-campaign shock (day 22): a hill-block cluster signal + a further 5% supply slip. How do you respond?

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Coverage & Equity-Gap Trajectory

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Supply Chain Management.

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