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The Indian Premier League: Gauging Player Performance
Soumya Roy; Soumyadeep Kundu; Dipayan RoyExercise IVEY-W25528-EDecision Analysis, MarketingIn May 2019, a senior analyst and blogger for a market research firm decided to analyze the performance and pay of various top-rated cricket players in the Indian Premier League. Teams usually spent millions of dollars acquiring players through auctions, and on coaches and other key personnel, as well as promotional campaigns. The analyst had started following the player auctions, where bids on some players had run into millions of US dollars. He...Starting at €8.20
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Universal Indane: Managing Inventory Flows and Beyond
Vigneashwaran K, Rohit KapoorExercise IVEY-W32668-EService and Operations ManagementYasir Qureshi, the proprietor of the Indian cooking gas agency Universal Indane (UI), has asked the company’s operations manager, Shruti Bhargava, to review the financial statement for fiscal year 2021–22 and prepare a report on the functioning of the various divisions. Although both the manager of human resources and the marketing manager had presented their reports, Qureshi wanted Bhargava to holistically audit the current inventory system at U...Starting at €8.20
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Marico Ltd.: Distribution Network Optimization
Aishwarya sadasivan; Ashish Pingulkar; Debmallya ChatterjeeExercise IVEY-W25851-EDecision Analysis, Service and Operations ManagementOn July 1, 2020, the co-head of the logistics and planning department at Marico Ltd., based in India, was reviewing reports on various issues related to stock inventory and warehousing. After studying the reports, he found that both lost opportunity and warehousing costs for the company were high. Compounding the problem was the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which had added pressure to the company’s impending cost pressures. Initially, Marico Ltd. h...Starting at €8.20
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Indian Railways: Estimating Electrical Contract Demand
Samir Biswas, Preetam BasuExercise IVEY-W25028-EDecision Analysis, Service and Operations ManagementAt the very end of 2019, Jay Prakash Pal, divisional electrical engineer (Traction Distribution) for the Sealdah division of Eastern Railway in India, was asked to prepare a consolidated report for revising the contract demand with power distribution compStarting at €8.20