"Prove you can run this."
The seven topic pages teach decisions in isolation. These six cases ask you to integrate them. Each is a fictional-but-realistic company facing a decision an operations leader actually makes — quality, demand, supply, location, logistics. Each case kit includes the dataset, the supporting reading, and a worksheet or notebook to anchor the analysis. The deliverable is a one-slide recommendation plus the analysis that justifies it.
How to use these
Pick the case closest to your domain. Work the dataset, fill the worksheet, then write a one-slide recommendation in plain English — not for the data team, for the CEO. Whether you use Excel, Python, or AI for the analysis is up to you; the deliverable is the decision, not the tool.
The six cases
Optional reference: how to present an operations recommendation
Two short references for the "ship the recommendation" half of the work — how operations analysts communicate to executives without burying the lede.
- AI in OSCM — Student Activity GuideWalks the BrewLine CSAT case as a model recommendation workflow.
- Operations Fix-It Challenge handoutA structured template for diagnosing a real company and proposing a fix.
- AI Orchestrators Playbook for OSCMIf you want to chain AI tools through the analysis end-to-end.