Ted Rogers MBA Students Win Walmart Operations Case Competition

Congratulations to Ted Rogers MBA graduate students Manuel Avila, Kyle Cormier, Niño Hizon, and Rahul Nair who were crowned champions of the Walmart Operations Case Competition on February 28, 2018.

After a briefing and tour at Walmart facilities a week before the competition, TRSM’s winning team created two new algorithms to improve Walmart’s shipping logistics, using voluminous real packing data from the company.

The team offered both short-term and long-term solutions, starting with a pilot project and then refining the process based on user input data and machine learning (AI).  At the request of the Walmart judges during the Q&A, the team then demonstrated online how quickly and easily this could be used.

Several of the judges suggested that the TRSM winning team patent their technologies as quickly as possible so that both Walmart and the global supply chain community could use this innovative technology.  The judges also gave the team praise for their creative ideas and the structure of their presentation.  Each of the winning team members will have job interviews with Walmart.

This was a first-time MBA case competition and featured 16 teams from four MBA schools in Ontario. Ted Rogers’ other MBA team that participated in the event (Sury Mishra, Damla Ozyoruk, Kumar Satyakam, and Nikita Varma) also made our school proud.