News for alumni & friends
August 2020
Greetings from Ann Arbor -

As our student teams prepare their final presentations to share with the Tauber community, we are deeply grateful for the unwavering support of our industry partners, faculty, and alumni whose ingenuity and perseverance made this summer's Tauber team projects possible.

Though we will miss gathering in person this year, we are excited to invite you to virtual SPOTLIGHT! 2020 - an interactive online event that our entire community can attend. Please join us September 18 to celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of our student teams and to discover great new ideas in Operations!

Industry Director
Tauber Institute for Global Operations
Friday, September 18, 11am - 5pm EDT
Tauber project teams welcome an online audience from around the globe for the virtual SPOTLIGHT! 2020 Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition. Join us for the entire event, or attend any combination of sessions across the day.
"Process improvement is needed everywhere. I have had the opportunity to work in multiple departments and on multiple product lines at Dell Technologies, and there was always an opportunity to review and improve some inefficient business processes."

Tauber alumnus Brian McDonnell (MBA '98) is the Marketing Director of Global Product Management for Dell Technologies. He has employed the multidimensional approach to business problems he learned from the Tauber program throughout his career.
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“The primary challenge with this project is how new many of these technologies are and the relatively limited experience DTE has with applying them at the distribution level. ”

DTE Energy charged their Tauber student team of Graham McCarthy (EGL BSE-AERO/MSE-IOE) and Blake Bogart (MBA) with developing a method to evaluate cost-effectiveness of Non-Wire Alternatives (NWAs), new technologies that reduce the peak load on existing infrastructure by either reducing energy demand or providing local energy generation when peak load would otherwise exceed existing equipment capacity ratings. Going forward, the Tauber team's model will lay the foundation for the benefit-cost test component of DTE's NWA suitability analysis process.

Every year, our team project sponsors thank their Tauber teams not only for impressive financial savings, but also for significant improvements in areas such as energy consumption, throughput time, and supply chain risk.

2020 Tauber Team Curation Foods: Joe Bertha (MSE-IOE), Deb Xavier (MBA), and Pablo Martinez (MBA)

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