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Canyon Mining Corporation: Heavy Mobile Equipment Procurement
Laseter, Timothy M.; Katz, Arnon; Choi, SihyunCase DARDEN-OM-1392-EService and Operations ManagementCanyon Mining intends to negotiate a long-term contract for haul trucks to use for surface mining, and a team from Censeo Consulting Group is tasked with developing a methodology to track cost changes over the past contract as input into the negotiation. The current project’s primary objective is to estimate the year-over-year trend in factory manufacturing margins for two different capacity trucks from two different equipment suppliers. These es...Starting at €8.20
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Concentrix Corporation: Improving Customer Persistency for an Indian Insurance Company
Shylu John; Bhavin J. ShahCase IVEY-W25821-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementIn August 2017, Concentrix Corporation (CNX) partnered with Photon Life Insurance Company (PLI), a leading insurance provider in India, to support PLI's customer management service. On February 1, 2018, Mohit Khanna, global operations manager at CNX, undertook a promising task to improve PLI’S customer persistency at minimal operational cost. If all policyholders with an approaching due date were to be called, then the number of service agents re...Starting at €8.20
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GD Labs: Scaling Swab Testing During COVID-19
Bhavin J. Shah; Arvind ShroffCase IVEY-W28361-EDecision Analysis, Service and Operations ManagementIn early 2020, the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the world led the most highly affected countries, such as the United States and India, to focus on rapid testing and contact tracing to break the chain of transmission. By August 25, 2020, India had tested nearly 37 million cumulative COVID-19 samples as part of the government’s “Test, Track, Treat” initiative. The efficient allocation of collected swabs with saliva samples to appropriate testing...Starting at €8.20
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Project Execution Dilemma at MICC
Hasmukh Gajjar; Bhavin J. ShahCase IVEY-9B14D010-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyMid-India Construction Private Company Limited (MICC) was awarded a refurbishing project for INR30 million from the National Institute of Management. The project had to be completed in eight months. MICC’s project manager observed the dismal pace of work execution and the limited resource deployment on-site in the first monthly review meeting for the project. This situation warranted the manager’s immediate attention to acquire more resources and...Starting at €8.20
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A Late Night at The Virginian Restaurant
Landel, Robert D.; Boes, SeanExercise DARDEN-OM-1551-EService and Operations ManagementIn this exercise, the manager of The Virginian, a small restaurant and bar in Charlottesville, has asked for help in reducing the average queue size at its bar. The Virginian prides itself on its fast and consistent service. (View the video at http://thevirginiancville.com/.) Students are offered four scenarios to guide their analyses. Students conduct analyses by preparing a simulated model on their own or using a simulation created with AnyLogi...Starting at €8.20
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Congestion in Café 67: Model Documentation and Guide
Landel, Robert D.; Boes, SeanTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1552-EService and Operations ManagementThe purpose of this document is to describe each step in the development of a model for the exercise “Congestion in Café 67.” The system itself is described in Appendix 1. A short and simple description of the model’s objects is included in Appendix 2.Starting at €8.20
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Concentrix Corporation: Analytics to Audit Claims in Customer Management Services - Teaching Note
Shylu John; Pradeep Kartha; Raghavendra Graghu; Bhavin J. ShahTeaching Note IVEY-8B21D012-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product 9B21D012.Starting at €0.00
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Concentrix Corporation: Analytics to Audit Claims in Customer Management Services
Shylu John; Pradeep Kartha; Raghavendra Graghu; Bhavin J. ShahCase IVEY-9B21D012-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementConcentrix Corporation (CNX), a technology enabled global business services organization, supported a transport solutions company with its customer management services. In June 2019, CNX’s global customer services operation manager carried out an assessment and found irregularities in the credit claim process for CNX’s client. The manager needed to reduce the number of irregularities so that CNX’s agents did not create a negative experience for t...Starting at €8.20
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Congestion in Café 67
Landel, Robert D.; Boes, SeanCase DARDEN-OM-1550-EService and Operations ManagementIn this exercise the manager of Café 67 asks for help dealing with the large queues of students during the Darden school's second coffee (approximately 20 minutes) who all want lunch at the same time.Starting at €8.20
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A Late Night at The Virginian Restaurant: Model Documentation and Guide
Landel, Robert D.; Boes, SeanTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1553-EService and Operations ManagementThe purpose of this document is to describe each step in the development of a model for the case “A Late Night at The Virginian Restaurant” (UVA-OM-1551).Starting at €8.20