Business simulation for educational purposes

The simulation of Companies for educational purposes allows acquiring the knowledge of the productive organization corresponding to the professional profile and the system of socio-labor relations of the activity, facilitating the future insertion in the labor market.

It also allows acquiring knowledge, skills, abilities and aptitudes that favor the development of capacities that are demanded in the productive environment in which the Jorge Newbery School of Commerce operates.

This means that the student can acquire professional competence with an identity and maturity that facilitates his adaptation to technological changes and has a training that makes him perform social functions with responsibility and efficiency.

The wide range of possibilities offered by the administrative field and the innovative nature of the teaching methodology, as it is motivating for the student, allows the results to be maximized, responding to a large extent to the detected requirements. This means that it is conceived as an instrument of labor insertion for graduates of the Jorge Newbery School of Commerce.

The simulated company for educational purposes TEXTIL SA is projected for the sale of work clothes, with the intention of providing the students of the Polimodal and the Organizational Management Professional Technical Path of the Jorge Newbery School of Commerce a professional qualification proposal in the field of management and business administration according to the needs in this activity in our environment.

For this, an organized structure has been thought about, with defined workplaces and clearly defined activities. The shape and layout of a real office is reproduced with complete fidelity and the students will learn in a clearly working environment, with real working conditions, facilitating learning by their concrete experience.

Its implementation, at first, will accompany the development of the modules of the Organizational Management TTP in the first and second years and in it manual and computer accounting tasks will be carried out under the same conditions as real companies.

Preliminary study

Background

TEXTIL SA is a simulated company whose main objective is to serve as a practical application tool of the theoretical work developed in the Polimodal and in the TTP modules. Organizational Management of the "Jorge Newbery" School of Commerce of Catamarca, allowing students to achieve a finished training for their immediate job placement at the end of the course.

TEXTIL SA's main activity is the purchase in Argentina of Workwear and occupational safety equipment and sells them to retail clients in Catamarca and other NOA provinces.

Textile Company Simulation

Project planning

The Simulated Company for educational purposes will have two clearly defined parts that allow its full development in the maintenance and application of the different planned tasks and those that could be incorporated.

On the one hand, the virtual pedagogical environment in which the objectives will be met requires coordination and technical assistance and, on the other hand, a constant controlled simulation service.

Coordination and technical assistance will be provided full time by a computer professional, whose profile also includes pedagogical training. This will guarantee that the system works correctly, covering the requirements of the different activities, from design, application, control and assistance of the System to an adequate pedagogical implementation.

In order for it to work properly, triggers for real situations (external agents and external situations) must be created that give meaning to the development of activities. This will be done from a Simulation Center in which simulated functions of Clients, Creditors, Banks, etc. will be created and managed.

The task of coordination turns out to be an element of vital importance for the success of the project, considering the technical and training aspects at different levels:

Coordination with the Simulated Managers Coordination with those responsible for the Central Simulation to program, jointly define activities and solve problem situations Constant relationship with the different coordinators of the other Simulated Companies Coordination with the teachers of the TTP Organizational Management modules to receive the support of the tasks that are carried out complementing the student's training in a coherent and logical way.

From this definition, the following main tasks of the coordinator emerge:

Simulated Company Design and planning of new companies
- This involves designing and operating the planned Simulated Company and planning the creation and start-up of Future Companies.
Training of new coordinators
- The training of both substitute coordinators of the simulated company and coordinators of new companies that could be created.
Technical pedagogical liaison with those responsible for the Central Simulation.
- It should serve as an institutional communication channel for the planning of individual or joint activities of the company / s.
Plan internships in Real Companies
- This task must be carried out in conjunction with the teachers of the TTP modules to define the alternatives and objectives that they wish to achieve, considering that the student works in a real company putting into practice everything they have learned in the simulation and collect experiences that allow you to enrich your qualified training.
Contacts with real companies and Institutions
- These contacts will be made in order to define joint tasks, either advising the school by the Royal Companies or exchanging experiences with other Institutions and, if necessary and at the request of the latter, providing them with adequate advice and training.
Receive new initiatives from other simulated companies. Exchanges with other simulation companies.
- The exchange of experiences between the Institutions integrated to the Simulated Company Project should be nourished with new ideas and proposals, based on a better educational service.

Survey

General Company Details

Company Name: TEXTIL SA

Branch: Wholesale Trade

Work clothes and equipment

Job security

Address: Maipú 762

"Jorge Newbery" School of Commerce

4700 - CATAMARCA

Company Name: Stock Company

Partnership Contract: Contract signed

Organization: Linear Organization

Manager: Chosen by students

Assortment: Purchase - Sale of workwear

Personnel: 1 Manager

19 Employees

Capital: u $ s 100,000.-

Bank Account: Banco de Catamarca

Current Account No. 19028/2

Bank of Galicia

Catamarca Branch

Current Account No. 32178 / 181-9

Working Hours: Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Registries: Commercial Registry

DGI: Registered Responsible

CUIT no. 20-08560127-0

DGR Ing. Brutos nº 25327

physical space - practice room

The Simulated Company TEXTIL SA has a classroom or training space that will be equipped with adequate furniture, technological means, learning materials and orientation bibliographic material.

It will have the permanent presence of the Simulated Company Coordinator for the advice and guidance of the module teachers and students, to energize the workspace and its updating.

Elements required by the Simulated Company

Computer
1. We have only one computer. The INEF is expected to purchase more equipment, for the time being it will be used for the design and printing of the Company's documents and the uploading of data for transfer via the Internet to the Simulation Center.
Calculators
1. One per Sector will be used.
Desks and chairs
1. By sector, at least two desks and one chair per student will be needed, located so that they can work in groups, providing space for circulation. A desk with a chair is also planned for the Coordinator and / or module teacher.
Meeting table
1. It is planned to use a large table provided with enough chairs to hold meetings.
Shelves
1. They will be used as libraries (for books, procedure manuals and reference material). Alternatively, they can be used as room dividers.
Wardrove
1. The cabinets will be used to store material and work equipment for each committee. They can also be used as room dividers delimiting specific spaces.
Telephone exchange and internal telephones
1. The use of the telephone is very important for the internal communication of the sectors, as well as for the commercial transactions of the PURCHASES and SALES sectors.
Photocopier
1. It is a widely used tool for the rapid copying of useful documentation and forms in the Company.
Overhead projector
1. This element is essential for the teacher's work and for presentations at visits.
Blackboard
1. White boards with special markers will be used.
Reference books
1. An own library provided with enough material appropriate to the contents that are taught in the modules serves for students to cultivate the habit of consulting and researching topics.The topics to be covered by the books must be Economics, Finance, Commercial Law, Instructional prosecutors, writing business letters.
Procedures Manuals
1. Each sector must have its own procedures manual, clearly defined and properly bound. This may be updated as changes occur in the Company's operations.
Didactic application materials (forms, worksheets, files, etc.)
1. You must have a file of originals of the forms that are designed, which will be used to obtain copies for use in operations. The cards used in DEPOSIT for Stock control will be kept in special containers.
App software
1. The installation of an OFFICE package integrated with Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Database and Presentations is foreseen.
Adequate and sufficient electrical installation.
1. The electrical installation is planned according to the distribution of the sectors. The additional wiring will be carried out taking into account all the security measures (external under cable channel, etc.)
Decorated
1. It is important that the environment has a suitable decoration that provides comfort and relaxation to the students. The use of plants improves the work environment and conditions the air with humidity. Illustrations are also important (charts, graphs, etc.)

The identification of each sector is foreseen with posters located well in sight from any angle of the room.

Communications Panel
1. It is used to quickly view action plans, commission tasks, schedules, events, etc., Management communications, awards, press articles, etc.

Simulated Company Room TEXTIL SA.

Offices Simulated Company TEXTIL SA.

Offices and Simulated Company Plant TEXTIL SA.

Diagnosis

Administrative organization chart

Proposal: Initial organization of the TEXTIL SA Company

Rationale: The creation of the TEXTIL SA Company is due to a pedagogical need for practical application in the development of the Polimodal and the Organizational Management Professional Technical Path of the "Jorge Newbery" School of Commerce in Catamarca.

Space: The environment in which the operational activities of the Company will take place is small, being a single room in which all the sectors that will fulfill different functions will operate. There is a commitment from the School Authorities to provide more consistent amenities in at least one more room once built with the PRODYMES II budget.

Modality: The procedure will generally be carried out with traditional means, that is, using manual filling forms, using typewriters and filing cabinets with manual filling cards.

The control of the accuracy and performance of the tasks will be carried out ensuring that each sector respects the procedures outlined in the respective procedure manuals and through constant monitoring of the teachers of the modules and the Simulated Company Coordinator.

For the transmission of information between the sectors, the means of telephone transmission and the documentation generated in each one will be used with dispatch and file to their respective destinations.

The design of the forms and other documentation used in the Company may be done by computer. In the same way the lists of Stock, Clients, Suppliers, bank account summaries, etc. they will be recorded by computer and the lists will be printed for use in each sector.

Organizational Chart Empresa Simulada TEXTIL SA.

Fundamentals: The Administrative Organizational Chart aims to determine an organized structure for the Company and to set the procedures related to its specific activity.

Advantages: An organized structure in a company makes it possible to clearly define the jobs, giving rise to a broad participation of all the members of the establishment, carrying out the assigned functions with responsibility.

Staff Distribution: The jobs will be filled by the students, leaving their distribution to the discretion of the module teachers.

Description of the defined Sectors:

Management:

- Manager

Payments

ADMINISTRATION sector: 6 positions

- Head of administration

Administrative records Lawsuits for non-compliance with payments Business information Management Tasks Form handling Mail Legal Matters File

- Accounting assistant

Data loading Suppliers data bank Customer data bank Bank plan of accounts Current accounts Suppliers Current accounts Customers Payment movements Collection movements Fiscal movements

1. 1. 1. 1. VAT Purchases and Sales DGR Income Tax

Personal and Employer Contributions

- Personal control

Labor lawsuits Employee contract and interview Employee task monitoring

- Payment of Salaries

Payment of salaries

- Administrative Assistant

Control of staff attendance Files Social Work Retirement contributions

- Receptionist

Attention to the PublicReception and sending of correspondenceCentral TelefónicaPhotocopies

Documentation:

ADMINISTRATION Procedures Manual Pending Tasks File of Miscellaneous Notes Reports Agreements Contracts List of Clients
- Invoices pending collection Customer checking accounts
Suppliers Listings
- Invoices pending payment Suppliers current accounts
Item Price Lists Accounting Record Books
- Main books Bank vouchers Tax vouchers Salary vouchers

DEPOSIT Sector: 5 charges

- Warehouse Manager

Deposit Organization

- Dispatcher

Entry of Goods

Warehouse Assistant
- Stock Classification
Replacement Control
- Merchandise orders
  1. Calculation of freight costs, weight, volume, price Determine routes and transportation
  Administrative Assistant
  - Information to Sales Information to Purchasing

Documentation:

DEPOSIT Procedures Manual Pending Tasks Stock List
- Orders
  - Replacement of merchandise
  Stock master file

PURCHASING sector: 4 charges

- Purchasing Manager

Plan purchases with other sectors Analyze and place orders

1. 1. 1. 1. Purchase of investment goods by the Company (equipment) Purchase of fixed assets by the Company (inputs)

- Purchasing manager

Purchase of merchandise

1. 1. 1. 1. For replacement of DEPOSIT By request of the SALES sector

- Accounting assistant

Control of supplier invoices Control of Deliveries and Payments

- Administrative Assistant

Vendor monitoring Vendor complaints

1. 1. 1. 1. Due to non-compliance in time and form Administrative follow-up of the claim

Documentation

Purchasing Procedures Manual Pending areas Stock list and purchase prices
- List of orders Order orders Purchase orders Shipments Claims
List of Suppliers List of Sales prices

SALES sector: 4 positions

- Sales manager

Follow-up and attract customers Plan Sales Process customer orders

- Marketing Assistant

Telemarketing Sales execution Determining assortments and prices

- Commercial Strategies Assistant

Submit offersPromotions and AdvertisingUpdate item list

- Administrative Assistant

Follow up on customer complaints Keep a record of customer orders Issue sales invoices Control deliveries and collections

Documentation:

SALES Procedures Manual Pending Areas Stock List and Prices
- Copies of invoices Customer orders
  - Order-book
  Remittances
Client list
- Claims

Detailed design

Procedures manuals, bound separately, will be used as a guide for each defined section, to facilitate the study and handling by the students.

In addition, the forms that will be used in the process stages are designed at this stage, being able to modify them to adapt them to the updates that arise from new fiscal and / or commercial instructions.