"Maya, don't trust the PPT from corporate. The inventory turnover ratio they sent is a lie. Use the 7th Edition formula on page 412—the one about cycle inventory. I've attached the real warehouse data."
Frustrated, she grabbed her battered copy of Supply Chain Management by Sunil Chopra—the 7th Edition, the one with the green cover that looked like it had been through a war. She flipped to Chapter 14, "Transportation in a Supply Chain." Supply Chain Management Sunil Chopra 7th Edition Ppt
The Last Slide
That’s when her phone buzzed. It was Raj, her old logistics manager from the Mumbai office. "Maya, don't trust the PPT from corporate
And that is how a 47-page PowerPoint, built in a panic at midnight, saved a $200 million supply chain. I've attached the real warehouse data
She had inherited a mess. Three regional distribution centers were operating at 140% capacity, a key supplier in Vietnam had just been hit by a typhoon, and the CEO kept demanding "Amazon-level speed" with "bargain-bin inventory costs." Her theoretical knowledge felt useless.
She closed her laptop. The stolen PPT had given her a template. But Sunil Chopra’s principles had given her a backbone.