Tauber student teams uncover significant opportunities for savings and efficiencies at sponsoring companies - and drive organizational improvements in project fields such as data analytics, sustainability, supply chain, strategy and more.
Since 1993, more than 145 companies have sponsored team projects. See the leading companies and executives on our Industry Advisory Board.
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The Tauber team was tasked to support the management hypergrowth ambition by evaluating the current forecasting and inventory management techniques, identifying critical areas of improvement, designing a solution, and implementing it to ensure efficient planning processes in two different business units.
The Tauber Team created an efficient future-state material storage layout to make room in the Toledo facility for new products assembly.
The team aimed to minimize the total enterprise cost of the adjustment while maintaining key metrics for production risk and labor utilization and adhering to layout, storage, safety, and material flow constraints.
The main deliverables were to set optimal inventory levels, design a future-state plant layout, and create an optimal material flow strategy.
PepsiCo’s flagship bottled water brand, Aquafina, constitutes nearly 10% of total PepsiCo demand and drives a large portion of the company’s supply chain complexity and cost. The Tauber team was tasked with analyzing Aquafina's complex network modeling tool to identify and prioritize areas of opportunity along with formulating recommendations to capitalize on these opportunities.
The Tauber team developed short-term and long-term process improvement initiatives that focus on reducing time-to-market for new services and billing errors.
The team conducted interviews to codify tribal knowledge into business processes and best practices, resulting in the creation of a dynamic launch playbook and guidance for new product owners.
The team implemented these resources, reducing the learning curve for product owners and providing new metrics for business operations teams to track process performance.
