Fall 2011 Case Competition Individual Application

Submitted by admin on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:41am

Deadline October 9th 11:59PM

Required Dates of Attendance:

October 13th 6pm - 8 pm Case Prep

October 15th 8 am - 5 pm Case Competition

Please completely fill out an application if you are an individual and not a team. Team applications can be found here, you DO NOT need to fill this out if you already have submitted a team application.

What you'll need: Resumes (pdf preferred, .doc accepted), e-mail addresses and other contact information and your slide deck answer to the application case.

Please note, by submitting this application you agree to fully attend both the Case Competition Preparation and Case Competition in its entirety. If you have questions about the case competition, don't hesitate to contact us.

Team Information

Team Name: *

What do you call yourselves?

Have you competed in previous competitions with Bruin Consulting?: *

Yes

No

Team Member Information

Teammate 1 Info

Last Name: *

First Name: *

Major: *

Graduation Year: *

Phone Number: *

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E-mail: *

Resume: *

Please label the file (Lastname)(Firstname)(Gradyear) e.g. BruinJoe2010

How did you hear of Bruin Consulting?: *

Do you have a friend you want to compete with that will/already has filled out an individual form?: *

If yes, please enter their name(s). Otherwise, please put No.

How did you hear of the case competition?: *

Mini-Case

Please include: 1 intro slide & 1 slide per question

Business Situation:

Our client is a one billion dollar manufacturer in pharmaceuticals products used to treat chronic diseases such as heart disease, asthma, arthritis, and cystic fibrosis. It’s products are currently unique to the market.

A new law will be instilled in 2011 that will require serial numbers on each individual package of pharmaceutical products. Our client’s products are manufactured in bulk processes. After manufacturing the vats are trucked to our clients’ headquarters to be packaged in their individual dosage containers. There are two processes, the fill/finish and the packaging process. After individual doses are packaged, each package is labeled and inserted into an individual dose carton. Finally, cases of these cartons are shipped to the customer.

You have been asked to help the company develop a strategy so that they can begin serializing all of their products. The client is looking for an interim serialization solution until their new facility is online in one year.

1. What are the benefits of adding a serial number to each dose of the product?

2. One of the main drivers to develop, select, and implementation strategy is cost. What steps would you take to serialize all products within this one year period?

3. For each option, access the clients total costs (including initial capital investment to serialize the product between the one year period before it is done online)

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Mini-Case Submission: *

Please submit a .pdf, .ppt, or .pptx slide deck.