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."
She quoted Sunil Chopra directly: "The key to supply chain success is not minimizing cost, but maximizing surplus."
By 3:00 AM, her presentation was finished. It didn't have fancy animations. It had data, logic, and one final slide titled: Supply Chain Management Sunil Chopra 7th Edition Ppt
She froze. Page 412 was the chapter on "Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain." She opened her laptop and searched for the unofficial "Sunil Chopra 7th Edition PPT" that a classmate had shared in a Google Drive years ago. It was a messy, pirated slide deck full of typos, but Slide 34 had a diagram she needed: the infamous "Risk Pooling" graph.
"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
When she clicked the last slide, the CEO asked one question: "How fast can you implement this?"
That’s when her phone buzzed. It was Raj, her old logistics manager from the Mumbai office. It had data, logic, and one final slide titled: She froze
She closed her laptop. The stolen PPT had given her a template. But Sunil Chopra’s principles had given her a backbone.
At 8:00 AM, she walked into the boardroom. The CEO frowned at the lack of flashy graphics. But as Maya walked through Chopra’s framework—network design, transportation modes, demand uncertainty—the CFO leaned forward. The COO stopped checking his email.
"The drivers of supply chain performance," she whispered, tracing the margin notes she’d made in grad school.
With renewed energy, she began deleting slides. She replaced the complex ERP screenshots with a single, simple diagram from Chopra’s PPT template: Cycle Inventory vs. Safety Inventory.