By 3:00 AM, her presentation was finished. It didn't have fancy animations. It had data, logic, and one final slide titled:
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
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
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. She flipped to Chapter 14, "Transportation in a Supply Chain