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Every year the Materials Handling Institute and the College Industry Committee on Material Handling Education, CICMHE, sponsor a case study competition for university students. Last month teams from twelve universities submitted reports with their solutions to a problem prepared by Gross and Assoc. (giving it away, again!). I was privileged to be one of the judges.
The case was a typical real world problem, with a variety of conflicting objectives, some conflicting data and enough open issues to require making a few business assumptions. Approaching the problem required more than applying textbook formulas.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James M. Apple, Jr. is a Director in The Progress Group. Prior to co-founding The Progress Group in 1991, he was a Partner with Coopers & Lybrand's SysteCon division. During 1992-1995 he served as a Senior Systems Advisor with Vanderlande Industries, a major conveyor and systems provider in Europe.
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