Before your bottle of Pepsi was loaded onto a grocery store shelf, it was stored, along with thousands of other bottles, in one of the company’s numerous warehouses. In spring 2015, when PepsiCo North America needed help refreshing its inefficient warehouse network, it turned to the University of Michigan's Tauber Institute for Global Operations.

Read how the Tauber graduate student team built a model to calculate costs related to insufficient storage space that enabled the team to identify gaps in existing capacity modeling, potentially saving the company's operational costs by $18.4 million.