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Ivey Publishing | Where the world looks for business cases

April 2012


IN THIS ISSUE:
Coming Summer 2012 ... Coursepack Builder
Over 150 India-based cases
New Cases in Operations Management, Management Science & Information Systems
Award Winning Authors
ISB-Ivey Global Case Writing Competition Invitation
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Over 150 India-based cases

Ivey Publishing reached a milestone this month of now having more than 150 India-based cases in our collection.  We now have the largest collection of recent business case studies about the region. Roughly one new India-based case will be added to the collection each week in the future.


With a commitment to providing high quality cases for use in India, our growing collection provides students with comprehensive cases that reflect the changing Indian business environment. For a list of abstracts of our India case collection, please click here.

New Cases in Operations Management, Management Science & Information Systems

The newest cases from the Ivey case collection are available for review. View New Cases for more details on cases registered in your discipline.

 

Material Requirements Planning at A-Cat Corp.

This case analyzes how Sunita Menon’s adoption of an MRP system at A-CAT Corp. (A-CAT) has improved the production-planning process. The case examines the intricacies of procurement, warehousing and processing costs of various material components by critically evaluating different techniques in practice. Using situational scenarios, the case presents lot-sizing techniques — including lot for lot, economic order quantity, least total cost and least unit cost — for balancing costs such as set-up costs, ordering costs and inventory-holding costs. This case can be used in a core course on production and operations management under subtopics such as material requirements planning or inventory management. It can also be effectively utilized in elective courses on inventory management, materials management or similar topics. The case is intended to help students learn the basics of MRP systems and use lot-sizing techniques in assessing the scope for cost reduction. It provides a good illustration of a small industry in an undeveloped region that has proactively undertaken several innovative steps to improve its competitiveness. In this way, the case demonstrates how a small/medium-sized organization, even with resource constraints, can achieve cost reduction by way of inventory management. The case also asks readers to take a holistic view of products and their sub-assemblies, and to identify the opportunities for cost reduction in this industry. Techniques and concepts that can be used to address the issues in this case include MRP systems and lot-sizing techniques (lot for lot, economic order quantity, least unit cost and least total cost).

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Ferro Industries - Exporting Challenge in a Small Firm

This case deals with an exporting challenge faced by Ferro Industries (Ferro), a small enterprise within the steel industry in India. The company’s manufacturing facility was located in the National Capital Region of Delhi. Ferro’s main products were roll-forming machines, cut-to-length lines and slitting lines; the company was one of only three firms in the Indian sub-continent catering to the market for such products. This case was developed to expose students to the challenges of exporting with reference to payment risk in small and medium enterprises. Accordingly, the case endeavours to educate students about topics relating to six general categories: payment risk in export deals; challenges of exporting by a small firm; deal-making in international entrepreneurship; international trade negotiation (need for letter of credit or not), role of corporate communication in overseas business; factors affecting corporate decision-making.

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Award Winning Authors

Authors of Learning with Cases, Teaching with Cases and Writing Cases won the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method award presented by the European Case Clearing House during the 2012 annual case award ceremony.

 

Carol Stephenson, Dean of the Richard Ivey School said, “The award of Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method gives worthy recognition to three remarkable individuals who have dedicated so much of their lives to teaching people worldwide how to get the most out of cases. Jim, Mike and Louise have conducted more than 400 case writing and case teaching workshops for thousands of participants in more than 50 countries over the past 40 years. Their work is at the heart of the great case tradition we have developed at Ivey and the school is delighted at this recognition.” Congratulations on their achievement!

 

In addition, the case entitled Louis Vuitton in Japan, authored by Justin Paul, won an award in the Entrepreneurship case category.

ISB-Ivey Global Case Writing Competition Invitation

In partnership with the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Case Development at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Ivey would like to invite you to participate in the ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition 2012.

 

The objective of this competition is to help build a repository of high-quality, internationally benchmarked cases about Indian businesses. The cases should be original business case studies suitable for use in MBA classrooms across the world and should aim to showcase the unique challenges and issues faced by organizations and business leaders in India. Submissions must also include teaching notes in English.

 

Winning cases will be published in the Ivey-ISB co-branded case collection available through Ivey Publishing. First place winners will also receive a cash prize of US $4000. Second prize winners take home US $3000 and there are special category prizes of US $2000 per category. A panel of internationally acclaimed subject experts judge each case in a double-blind review process and will provide written feedback on each case.

 

Download the intent to participate form and email it to Ivey India. Deadline for submissions has been extended to April 30 for international participants.

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