An 18-year-old high-school senior. Her smile and phone translation help her meet people and bring their problems back to the team.
ECONOMIC MODEL · GAME 05Supply-chain landscape transition
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CASE 05Supply chain
INDUSTRY
05/12Supply-chain landscape transition
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STORY NAVIGATOR · ACT 1
Samuel Ortega
Sourcing-landscape transition coordinator · 『The map of those being cut off』
Characters & story
With smartphone translation, Aoi visits producer Elena’s cooperative and compares its reality with the red risk map at headquarters. Dr. Mori explains that simply dropping suppliers can shift pressure elsewhere. Ren designs an advance, a purchase guarantee, and first-loss support. The team builds a three-year bridge where a producer can report a bad harvest or debt trouble without immediately losing the contract.
Samuel coordinates transitions between a global buyer and producer cooperatives.
He uses familiar examples to explain why the economic problem occurs.
A 23-year-old first-year graduate student. He asks who pays when and what promise people can actually keep.
A transcendent economist from another world. Nagi finds the problem that remains after Earth’s best answer.
What is happening
「Headquarters marks Elena’s cooperative red. Dropping it improves the company indicator, but its land will simply sell to another buyer.」
Change conditions in the sourcing landscape instead of moving the risk off the company’s books.
Their wish: Keep Elena’s cooperative in the next sourcing contract / What gets in their way: He carries every promise himself and reports bad news too late