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Heartland Industrial Supply Co.

A simulated company. Real applied work.

Heartland is a fully modeled simulation of an industrial-products wholesaler with warehousing operations. It exists to demonstrate practical capability—not to operate as a real business.

65Employees
3Facilities
320Customers
200SKUs

A living business laboratory

Capability made visible.

Heartland creates the operational complexity of a wholesale business: products, customers, purchasing, inventory, warehousing, sales, and management decisions.

That connected environment makes it possible to demonstrate how data, software, systems thinking, and AI can improve the way a business understands its operations and makes decisions.

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Data analytics

Decision-focused dashboards, reporting, models, and analysis grounded in a coherent simulated business.

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Computer science & development

Software, databases, and practical development work built around authentic business needs.

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Systems concepts

Connected processes that reveal how decisions and constraints affect the business as a whole.

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AI integration

Purposeful use of AI to strengthen analysis, prediction, workflows, and human judgment.

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Data-driven management

Turning evidence into clearer priorities, stronger decisions, and measurable operational improvement.