Rutgers Business School hosted the second annual Rutgers Ten Plus Supply Chain Case Dual Challenge March 31 – April 1, 2016 in New Brunswick, and included parallel events for graduate teams and for undergraduate teams. The competition brought together teams from BIG10 Universities, such as Indiana University, University of Iowa, Ohio State University, University of Maryland, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, University of Wisconsin, and Rutgers. In addition teams participated from University of Arkansas, Northeastern University, University of Pittsburgh, Rider University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Syracuse University.

This year's case theme was Supply Chain Finance. The event included six undergraduate and nine graduate teams.

In the undergraduate competition, Stevens Institute of Technology took the first place and Rider University came in second.

In the graduate competition, the Rutgers Business School team of Rebecca King, Matthew Watters, Anupriti Warade, and Jagadish Mahendran took the first place.  Pittsburgh finished in second place, and Maryland came in third. In addition, Rutgers won the best in competition award. Finally, Rutgers MBA team participant Matthew Watters was honored with the most professional presenter award.

The judges for this event represented a wide range of companies such as Dell, Johnson&Johnson, Kuehne & Nagel, Damco/Maersk, Solvay Chemical, Credit Suisse, Estée Lauder, Verizon, and others.  The panel of judges for the final round consisted of some of the world's top experts on Supply Chain Finance:

•    Mike Dundas, Vice President, Global Manufacturing & Operations Engineering at Dell, is in charge of the supply chain that is widely cited as one of the best in the world.
•    Jordan Novak, Managing Director at C2FO, one of the most innovative and fastest-growing financial technology companies.
•    Steve Lauricella, Director at Greensill Capital, one of the largest funders of Supply Chain Finance programs worldwide.
•    Doug Schoch, Vice President, Captive Business at Siemens, leads one of the first and largest Supply Chain Finance programs in the world.
•    Anubhav Shrivastava, Director and Head of North America Supplier at Citigroup, which is the largest bank in Supply Chain Finance worldwide.

Photo:

Rutgers MBA winning team poses with Dean Lei Lei, Supply Chain Management faculty, and Johnson & Johnson representatives. From left to right: John Impellizzeri, RBS; Eric Larson, RBS; Sarah Harse, J&J; Len DeCandia, Chief Procurement Officer, J&J; Dr. Lei, Matthew Watters, MBA; Rebecca King, MBA;  Jagadish Mahendran, MBA; Anupriti Warade, MBA; Tom York, RBS; Rudi Leuschner, RBS; Aisha Khan, J&J.