Operations Club

The Operations Management Club is an organization under the Krannert Graduate Students Association. Our mission is to expose students to real-world opportunities through the following functions:

• Speaker led series
• Plant tours (Toyota, Harley Davidson, Caterpillar, Rolls Royce, Fed Ex, Amazon)
• Kaizen events
• Workshops
• Case competitions
• Guest speakers
• Information sessions
• GSCM (Global Supply Chain Management)
• APICS (The Association for Operations Management)

Through these different channels, we hope to broaden the understanding of Operations beyond the traditional classroom setting. During the course of the year, we will be holding different events and bringing various operational leaders from the industry to provide students with insight and future outlook.

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Upcoming Events

January-February 

          Jan 11th, Wednesday- Operations Club Sponsored Social Hour

          Jan 20th, Friday Noon- Resumes and Letters of Intent due to Heather Padget for Operations Club Executive Board 2012-2012

          Jan 23rd, Mon-  Feb 10th, Friday:  Ops Club Executive Board Interviews

February                 

          Feb 17th, Friday- Announcement of 2012-2013 Ops Club Executive Board

Feb 16^th:  FedEx Indianapolis Hub Site Visit – IND is home to the second largest hub in the world  for FedEx behind only the world hub at Memphis International Airport.  IND is the eighth largest cargo center in the U.S., the 22nd busiest airport in the world by cargo traffic.  More than 2.2 billion pounds (1.0 billion kg) of cargo were managed at IND in 2010.  Join us for an onsite tour of the facility during their peak shipping time- nighttime!

         March 1st-  New Executive Board Officially in Office

TBA:  Subaru – learn more about operations by seeing this amazing facility first hand!

           April 13th, Friday-  John Deere Site Visit sponsored by DCMME

 TBA:  Amazon – learn more about operations the Amazon way by visiting the Whitestown, IN fulfillment facility.

 TBA: KOC & OSCO take leadership roles in the Spring Global Supply Chain Management Conference and Case Competition.

  Globalize Your Krannert Experience- May 2012 India

**Stay tuned for information on how to get involved in the following Operations Club sponsored case competitions: Purdue’s KGSA, MSU’s Eli Broad, APICS, Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper, and MIT’s Sloan Operations Simulation Competition**

Past Events

November

           Nov 11^th Friday- Pepsico & Roche Site Visit & Tour

           Nov 30^th Wednesday- Operations Club Sponsored Social

December               

           Holiday:  No trips being planned – Stay posted for a social event announcement.

October              

            October 27 Thursday- KOC BBQ

            TBA: Call outs for leadership and volunteer positions for GSCM Conference & Case Competition begin October 1^st!

September             

         Sept.29^th Thurs- Coffee with Shell Recruiters

Sept 12^th 6pm – 7pm John Deere Info Session

Sept 8^th (Wed) The Mansion, Indianapolis- Dinner and Speaker event is being held in Indianapolis. Contact Zach Clay for more information.

Sept 13^th (Tues) 11am-4pm Stewart Center 302-303- Meet recruiter from Bosch to learn about the opportunities for full time and internship positions.

Sept 13^th (Tues) Bosch Info Session  Learn more about the company and internship/full-time opportunites with Bosch.

Sept 14^th (Wed)  Join Bosch recruiters at the industrial roundtable.

Sept 16^th (Fri)   DCMME Fall Operations Conference and Summer Internship Poster Competition.  Don’t miss out to participate or volunteer!

Sept 16^th (Fri)  By Midnight:  Operations Club 1^st Year Representative applications/ resumes due to Heather Padget @ hpadget@purdue.edu  

Aug. 26^th   8am – 2pm Opportunity Day:  Join us in learning more about Krannert’s professional, social and special interest clubs!

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**Congratulations**

Congratulations to the 2011-2012 newly elected first year representatives:

• Arjun Bhargava
• Saurabh Arora
• Jing Zhao
• Susana Restrepo

Global Operations Case Competition, University of Michigan- The team took 1st place at the  competition.

• Brandon Sturm
• Matt Martin
• William Birch
• Deepti Nair
• Matt Bartlett

LINKS Global SCM Competition (October 5th) -The teams below will be represented Krannert at the case competition.

Team 1

•  Brandon Sturm
• Anna Peckhart
• Rolince Thomas
• Nikil Mohan
• Deepti Nair

Michigan State University Broad Case Competition(Oct 27^th & 28^th)-The team below will be represented Krannert at the case competition and took 3rd place.

• Amanda
• Matt Martin
• Anna Peckhart
• Brandon Sturm

 Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper Case Competition (Nov 11^th & 12^th)-The team below will be represented Krannert at the case competition.

• Matt Bartlett
• David McDairmant
• Anshuman Kumar
• Heather Owens
• Saurabh Arora

Officers

Club President: hpadget@purdue.edu

Vice President: arun@purdue.edu

Vice President: cheng66@purdue.edu

Vice President: zclay@purdue.edu

Vice President: ndeen@purdue.edu

The Operations Club is proud to announce that Purdue team placed 3rd at the MSU Graduate Supply Chain Challenge. The team composed of Brandon Sturm, Matt Martin, Anna Peckhart (MBA ’12) and Amanda Lu (MBA ’13) competed against seven of the top supply chain programs.  Unlike traditional MBA case competitions, this event introduced a simulated real-time [...]

Krannert Operations Club members took some time on Thursday to get away from the hectic academic schedule to mingle with classmates from both 1st year and 2nd year students. The students had the opportunity to enjoy the company of other students over great food and better company. Please look forward to more great events like [...]