Beginning this October, teams of 4-5 student-consultants from the Reh School of Business, Clarkson University, will spend 60 hours per team working to develop solutions to your business/ supply/ sourcing problems.

Using Microsoft Excel and other quantitative tools, students will analyze your organizational data and provide managerial insight on how you can select the best supplier(s) for your new product/materials, develop a purchasing plan, evaluate the performance of existing suppliers, identify new supply sources, analyze market, or implement a more effective supply management/supply chain management strategy.

Possible areas of focus for this project include, but are not limited to:

• Supply management/Supply chain management strategy
• Business purchase/ Supply evaluation
• Supplier categorization/ segmentation/ rationalization
• Supplier development and integration
• Supplier selection

Project proposals should answer the following questions to be considered for inclusion in this course:

1. What problems/opportunities would you like student teams to address through this project? Please be specific.

2. What are the benefits of this project to your organization/customers? Please describe the desired recommendations.

3. What organizational data set(s) will you providing to student teams? Please describe the format and the volume.