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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At Amazon, traditional non-sort (TNS) Fulfillment Centers utilize associate-operated order pickers to process inventory within wide and very narrow aisles. This project focuses on improving the cycle time for order picking within very narrow aisles (VNA) and explores opportunities such as combination tasking, protocol robustness, and automation.
To mitigate the cost of Amazon's rapid expansion of Fulfillment Centers, the Tauber team focused on two separate opportunities within quality - Count Optimization and Defect Reduction.
Microsoft employees all over the world turn to Procurement to purchase goods and services. The Tauber team was given the opportunity to work on two different process improvement projects within Procurement.
The Tauber team developed solutions for the challenge posed by their sponsoring company.
