From New Jersey to Michigan, undergraduate and graduate students in the
Whitman
School of Management at Syracuse University put their knowledge of supply chain
management to the test by competing against other university teams in national supply
chain management competitions.
Four M.B.A. students in the Whitman School participated in the April 3 student case
competition hosted by the Center for Supply Chain Management in the Rutgers Business
School, Rutgers University. The student team, composed of seniors Qazi Kabir, Alvaro
Fernandez-Gonzalez, Yang Lin and Madhuri Karpe, competed against teams from Lehigh
University, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, and New Jersey Science and
Technology University. Scott Webster, the Becker Professor of Supply Chain Management
at Whitman, acted as faculty representative for the team, which won $200 in the
competition.
A group of undergraduate students was among 14 teams that competed in a recent capstone
simulation at Michigan State University. Whitman students senior Holly Tassi, junior Sonali
Teli and senior Matt Raia, and junior SU School of Information Studies student Tim Blonski
received three hours of training before competing for another 3.5 hours. The simulation was
a multi-national supply chain with multiple suppliers, factories, raw materials and modes of
transportation. Gary LaPoint, assistant professor of supply chain management practice,
advised the team.
"Both Whitman teams worked very hard in these competitions, going head-to-head with
students from some of the best supply chain management programs in the nation," says
Webster. "Whitman is very proud of their participation and is confident of continued
successes in years to come."
For more information, contact Amy Schmitz, Whitman School director of communications,
at (315) 443-3834 or aemehrin@syr.edu.
