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Indian Railways: Estimating Electrical Contract Demand
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Reference: IVEY-W25028-E
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Year: 2019
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Number of pages: 5
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Geographic Setting: India
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Publication Date: Sep 9, 2021
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Source: Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Type of Document: Exercise
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Industry Setting: Utilities
Description
At 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 comp
Learning Objective
This exercise can be used to discuss decision making through a Monte Carlo simulation model, in a postgraduate course on risk management and business analytics; forecasting models, in a postgraduate course on operations management; and capacity-planning m