Supply Chain Students Make Finals at Operation Stimulus Case Study Competition
Students (left to right) from the J.B. Hunt Transport Department of Supply Chain Managment — Derek Mitchell, Ella Knee, Austin Lafferty and Emma Easterwood — receive their finalist plaque at the 2023 Operation Stimulus Supply Chain Case Study Competition.
A student team representing the J.B. Hunt Transport Department of Supply Chain Management in the Sam M. Walton College of Business wa named a finalist in the 2023 Operation Stimulus Supply Chain Case Competition.
Operation Stimulus, hosted this year by the Colorado State University College of Business and Denver Transportation Club, is the longest-running supply chain and logistics student case study competition in North America. OpStim invites future supply chain leaders from the nation's preeminent universities to learn, innovate and solve real-world problems while simultaneously bringing together industry professionals and supply chain and logistics companies championing the future of the industry.
The Case Competition kicked-off in Fort Collins, Colorado, Thursday, March 2, with final rounds and winners announced on Friday, March 3. Representing the Razorbacks were supply chain students Austin Lafferty, Derek Mitchell, Ella Knee and Emma Easterwood.
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Nathan Bramwell, marketing manager
J.B. Hunt Transport Department of Supply Chain Management
479-575-2246,
nbramwell@walton.uark.edu
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