Smith Strategy and Operations Case Competition
The Smith School of Business has organized its
very own case competition – The
Smith
Strategy and Operations Case Competition
this semester hosted by the Clubs - Supply Chain
and Operations Club (SCOC), Healthcare Business
Association (HBA) and Business
& Enterprise Technology Association (BETA).
Visi
March FedEx Career Trek
The career trek to the FedEx
Ground Beltsville plant on Friday, March 2nd
was a great success!
22 students pooled from the MBA and MS cohorts
participated in the trek. Smith MBA alumnus Mark
Ardila, the Senior Manager at FedEx Ground
hosted the trek. Mark and his team provided
great insights into FedEx logistics and IT
infrastructure. He also gave a tour of the
plant explaining the entire inventory lifecycle.
Other FedEx representatives explained how FedEx
Ground fits into to the overall operations of
the company, which consists of five
subsidiaries. All in all a great experience!
The SCOC President Ani
Ghosh summed it all up by saying, “Mark and
his FedEx team did a great job explaining the
value chain and operations that make FedEx one
of the leaders in the freight-forwarding
industry.”
Achievements:
2nd Place in the Sam Walton Case Competition
Congratulations to Ankit Agarwal (MBA '12), Karen Cringoli
(PT MBA), Nneka Ehirim (MBA '13), Abhijit Patel (MBA '12),
Sheetal Siwach (MS SC), and Xuan Shang (MS SC) for their
impressive achievement at the 2011 Sam Walton Case Competition!
Sponsored by Sam's Club and Unilever, the competition attracts
the top logistics students from the United States and Canada to
Bentonville, Arkansas. This year's competitors included
teams from Brigham Young University, Chalmers University of
Technology, Darmstadt University of Technology, Iowa State
University, Penn State University, Rutgers University, Texas
Christian University, U. Arkansas, and U. Minnesota. The
competition was held Oct. 27-29, 2011.
The case tasked a major food supplier with maintaining
availability of their products on the shelves of their largest
retailer’s stores. Faced with increasing customer
complaints about empty shelves, the retailer informed the
supplier if they did not immediately improve their in-store
product availability, the amount of shelf space dedicated to all
the supplier's products would be reduced. In addition, the
retailer would reduce the actual number of supplier's products
carried in their stores. Faced with this “Code Red”
challenge, the supplier hired a team of top retail logistics
professionals to help them solve this critical challenge - enter
the case competition teams. This year’s case was the first to
employ three mandated live facility tours to a retailer
distribution center, a retailer’s store operations and a
supplier’s operations followed by team brainstorming.
1st Place in the Rutgers Supply Chain Case Competition
Congratulations to the team of Jayraj Ganesh, Chia Chia Chang, Vivek Srivastava and SrivatsaKumar Sarvepalli for their splendid performance in the Rutgers Supply Chain Case Competition held at Rutgers University in March 2010.
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3rd Place in the Ricardo Operations Case Competition
Congratulations to the team of Siddhartha Jain, Chia Chia Chang, Neil Vora, and Srivatsa Kumar for coming in third place in the Ricardo Strategic Consulting Operations Case Competition held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 6th, 2009. The first and second place teams were from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. The competition attracted 28 teams from across 10 universities from as far away as New York and California. Teams applied business strategy frameworks, operations knowledge, and analytical and problem solving skills to develop and present a recommendation to deal with emerging challenges at a fictional wind turbine component manufacturer.
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2nd Place in Purdue University's Global Supply Chain Case Competition
Congratulations to the team of Anirudha Roy Chowdhury, Abhinav Dass, Girish Jaguste, and Songtao Yu, in coming in second place in the Purdue's Global Supply Chain Case Competition held at Purdue University on February 14 - 15, 2009. The first place team was Northwestern University and Purdue University took third. The universities that competed were the following:
University of Akron
Northwestern University (2 Teams)
Michigan State University (2 Teams)
Georgia Tech (2 Teams)
Purdue University
University of North-Carolina (2 Teams)
Tuck School, Dartmouth
University of Michigan
University of Wisconsin
Vanderbilt University (2 Teams)
Indiana University (2 Teams)
UCLA
University of Minnesota
For more information, please use the following link: http://www.krannert.purdue.edu/departments/dcmme/Conferences/Case Competition.html
Ranking
The Smith School's Supply Chain/Logistics Program is ranked 8th in the United States by US News & World Report (2010).