Thinking Like Executives, UH Industrial Engineering Students Bring Home Prize

Muralitharan, Sivasamy along with Srivignesh Somasundaram and Anand Krishnamoorthy have reason to be counted among their prosperous peers. Collectively called “Team Bottomliners,” they brought home first place in the annual Institute for Supply Management’s Houston Case Competition.

A case for change

In the competition, the group was presented with an actual business case that had really taken place in a company’s history. In this case, Scotts Miracle-Gro was under pressure due to high plant and labor costs at their plant in Temecula, California.