Operations solutions help good work go further

Ann Arbor, MI - By providing expert solutions for operations challenges, Tauber Community Service Day teams help community organizations leverage their resources to maximize their good work. On February 11, Tauber Institute students, alumni, staff, faculty, and industry advisory board members contributed their time and talent to SE Michigan nonprofits Communities First and Center for Success.

Each year, organizations participating in Community Service Day receive operations solutions tailored to their needs - and Tauber students have the opportunity to apply the concepts they have learned to real-world problems.

 

Currently, we have over 40 students on a waiting list who are not able to receive one on one literacy mentoring, so the work that the project team did will aid in our recruitment and our mission of uniting community with literacy to empower them in the journey of education.
Heidi Miller
Director of Learning, Center for Success
Tauber student Grace Vandelac, 2022 Community Service Day Chair:
I was able to learn about leadership, event coordination, and even about how topics Tauber students are learning in the classroom are directly applicable in different real-life scenarios. For example, one of the projects involved inventory control methods which we just learned about earlier this semester! Another project allowed students to utilize their data analytics skills to look for trends in social media data to back up their recommendations.
The solutions presented were tangible and realistic, yet creative... We're excited to move towards implementation of low cost, high benefit systems that will save us money, time and resources.
Essence Wilson
Chief Strategy Officer, Communities First

Thank you to all the Tauber community members who worked on Inventory Control, Outreach Analysis, and Community Resource Database projects for 2022 Community Service Day!



2022 Community Service Day Chair: Grace Vandelac

Team Leads: Kagan Conrad, Matt Howard, Keith Luu, Arun Palaniappan, Jeremy Segal

Team Members: Timothy Breckwoldt, Diana Crossley, Josh Fink, Tori Heuschneider, Michael Krasnor, Kartik Sriram Kumaravelan, Margaret Mason, Rod McInnis, Ray Muscat, Abhishek Ramachandran, Matt Rosales, Katerina Siavelis, Channing Wan, Christian Zung

The Tauber Institute for Global Operations is a joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and Michigan Engineering, working together with industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. The Tauber Institute is an inaugural recipient of the UPS George D. Smith Prize for effective and innovative preparation of students to be good practitioners of operations research, management science, or analytics. For more information visit tauber.umich.edu.