PGPEX VLM Students win prestigious case study competitions
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Ravi Shankar Burnwal, Sahil Arora, and Roushan Kumar Singh of PGPEX VLM have won consecutive case study competitions. On 10th October 2021, VLMPians from the 15th batch became runner-up in a case study competition organized by IIT Kanpur. The case competition was part of Prabandhan'21 – the flagship management conclave of IIT Kanpur, and the challenge was to develop an expansion plan for a retail company (VegKart). The entire model was presented in a Business Canvas using secondary research and strategies to attract, convert, retain, and delight customers. The team also proposed various expansion strategies, including designing a robust supply chain through an Omni channel retail system to enter the tier-2 cities and emphasize regional/private label brands to increase profit margins.
Once again on 30th October 2021, the same team became the National Winner of the Dakshta-Operations Case Study Competition at Samanvaya, the annual business festival organized by IIT Madras. The objective was optimization and scalability of a Ride-Sharing Taxi App (a.k.a. Platform Economy Challenge). Our students provided a Linear Programming solution and heuristics to solve the problem in real-time. The team impressed the esteemed jury with their concrete and inclusive solution and secured 1st rank.