The Mitch Daniels School of Business fosters a culture of grit and innovation. Our students possess the tenacity to tackle complex challenges from multiple angles.
By partnering with OBP, your organization can tap into this talent pool, presenting real-world business problems for our students to solve. Our students, guided by faculty and staff expertise, will deliver actionable solutions, reports, and deliverables tailored to your specific needs.
The primary goal was to coordinate marketing efforts that led to significant improvements in the company’s market presence and engagement
The solution was developed using a dual approach:
The coordinated marketing efforts offered improvements in the company’s market presence and engagement with a goal to increase social media following, higher search engine rankings, enhanced digital visibility and greater participation from various communities across the 13 targeted counties.
Purdue University Daniels School of Business BS General Management
The objective is to provide recommendations to the business on how we might hire more effectively and reduce attrition.
Available information sources for Project 1 include:
Available information sources for Project 2 include:
Project 1:
Students will analyze the effectiveness to:
Purdue University Daniels School of Business MS Business Analytics and Information Management
Create a robust and data-driven framework for assessing and qualifying IT and operations suppliers, thus enhancing the vendor selection and risk management program. The project will leverage various industry partner and external data sources, including historical supplier performance data, industry benchmarks, and external risk indicators, to develop a comprehensive evaluation model and scoring tool.
The model should consider factors such as financial stability, operational capacity, cybersecurity preparedness, and compliance adherence, to name a few considerations.
Vendors
Key risk indicators dimensions and availability
Our expectation is that the students will create a risk qualification and evaluation predictive model for Tier 1 IT and operations suppliers that the industry partner can easily use to make decisions through the overall supplier lifecycle process, in particular to mitigating risks.
Purdue University Daniels School of Business MS Business Analytics and Information Management
The primary goal is to optimize the company’s backlog management process by addressing the following:
The project aims to deliver an analysis and an algorithm for measuring and allocating limited supplies against demand, a documented backlog management strategy supported by stakeholders, defined organizational roles and responsibilities, and pilot tools and reports for new process deployment.
Purdue University Daniels School of Business MS Global Supply Chain Management
The primary goal was for student teams to:
This project aims to develop strategic investment recommendations, considering profits, company values, and customer base. This includes evaluating how investments in batteries and fuel cells align with long-term profitability, sustainability goals, and customer needs.
ECON 251
Purdue University Daniels School of Business BS Integrated Business and Engineering
The project's goals were to research and understand internal and external DE&I strategies while evaluating best practices across people, sales and marketing, operations, and community functions, as well as understanding the brewery's unique culture through its mission, vision, core values, and commercial priorities. Finally, develop and propose a DE&I strategy for the brewery with actionable routines and resources to maximize the effectiveness and sustainability of the strategy.
The team developed an integrated DE&I experience that is still unique to acquire the brewery's specific structures and individual culture while maintaining the larger company culture and operational procedures. This executive summary was presented to leadership, inclusive of an operating budget for implementation across all functional channels, including sales, distribution, manufacturing, etc.
Purdue University Daniels School of Business MS Human Resource Management
The principal aim is to identify leading hydroponic equipment suppliers within the USA and globally, evaluating their potential for licensing partnerships concerning our innovative Rotary Aeroponic® system design and increasing our base of seed pod subscriptions, particularly within the context of their existing grow tent offerings.
This study is primarily interested in equipment suppliers and not input suppliers (providing consumables such as growing media and fertilizers).
Students will determine the recommended pricing for the complete grow-tent and seed pod systems.
Management Consulting
Purdue University Daniels School of Business BS General Management
The primary goal was for student teams to:
The project aimed to identify brand perception strategies and develop a comprehensive marketing strategy for the company’s electric power division.
Purdue University Daniels School of Business BS Marketing
Identify and demonstrate state-of-the-art methods for forecasting energy market behavior and prototype selected algorithms using energy grid data.
The student team will necessarily use the following technologies or languages for the specified functionality detailed below:
The industry partner requires the student team to:
Project outcomes include:
Purdue University Daniels School of Business MS Business Analytics and Information Management
Provide students with the opportunity to gain insight on relevant topics affecting the commercial industry.
The primary deliverables are a comprehensive report and presentation containing the analysis of current economic conditions and future trend predictions for the list of cities to be provided during project introduction. The secondary deliverable is a report showing the current and predicted future geographical landscape as it pertains to manufacturing in the consumer electronics industry. If time permits, a tertiary deliverable is a recommended plan to collect, store, and distribute the analysis gathered from primary/secondary deliverables on a regular basis across the sourcing organization of a large cap company.
MGMT 661: Management of Operating Systems
Purdue University Daniels School of Business MS Global Supply Chain Management
Develop real-time delivery trend reports to minimize stockout risk on the production floor. The reporting can be utilized for the following:
Manual Delivery Trend Reporting with Minimal Impact
Develop a real-time delivery trend report to minimize stockout risk on the production floor.
Purdue University Daniels School of Business MS Business Analytics and Information Management
The team conducted an analysis to determine the effectiveness of various models in achieving four key objectives: capturing new business, growing existing client relationships, cost-effectiveness for the organization, and ensuring client and customer satisfaction. In addition, they outlined the pros and cons of each model, as well as the risks associated with each.
The team recommended a model and organizational structure for securing new business and growing existing business. The team provided an analysis of the pros, cons, and risks associated with each model. Recommendations were based on client and customer satisfaction, cost-effectiveness, and ability to capture new and existing business.
Purdue University Daniels School of Business MS Business Analytics and Information Management
This project will investigate, experiment, develop, test, and provide improvements via insights, models, recommendations to enhance the industry partner’s future spend and pricing capabilities.
The student team will necessarily use the following technologies or languages for the specified functionality detailed below:
The student team will work with the following key datasets:
Project success will be determined based on your ability to identify and provide empirical based spend/pricing recommendations using models or analysis.
Purdue University Daniels School of Business MS Business Analytics and Information Management
Provide an improved forecasting scenario and recommendations for best practices to determine supplier forecasting data. The recommendations must remain aligned with the industry partner's pull-manufacturing operation, which primarily utilizes reorder point or kanban planning techniques.
On average, the max forecast planning represents up to a 100% increase over the standard forecast planning scenario. Suppliers will often be challenged with an excess supply chain if the industry partner's demand does not equate to the max forecast over a given period.
Further, since COVID, several suppliers have reviewed their stocking programs with Lincoln, and they no longer accept the Vendor Management Inventory (VMI) program due to the volume spread between the standard and max forecast scenarios.
Build a forecast analysis tool for the industry partner with the base features:
Purdue University Daniels School of Business MS Business Analytics and Information Management
