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View summaries of Tauber team projects from recent years.
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View summaries of Tauber team projects from recent years.
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The Tauber team aims to optimize the frozen food supply chain at ConAgra by creating synergies across the brands ConAgra already offers. Additionally, by creating these synergies, the Tauber team will analyze if a hub-and-spoke model is the best solution.
Student Team:
Isabel Rolfe – EGL (BSE/Master of Engineering in Industrial & Operations Engineering)
Rachel Karaban – Master of Business Administration
Project Sponsors:
Craig Weiss – Senior Vice President Supply Chain
Sam Beadle – Senior Director, Productivity Program Management
Faculty Advisors:
Ravi Anupindi – Ross School of Business
Wei Lu – College of Engineering
The Tauber team, led by Isabel and Rachel, is exploring a new concept in our inbound supply chain to our Frozen foods plants. They are evaluating the synergies, in a Post COVID world, where we have created more flexibility and redundancy in our supply chain, to optimize the inbound flow of materials. This could unlock significant savings to our supply chain.
I have been particularly impressed with their balance of technical and business acumen skills; both of which are critical when tackling a network project like theirs………..