About the role
Description:
Every supply chain eventually meets the week it was not built for. A promotion lifts demand, a supplier under-delivers, the rain arrives and a freezer fails. The operations managers who stand out in these moments are the ones who can separate the symptom from the cause and fix it within the limits they have been given.
Operationale, the operations competition of Passion'26 at IMT Ghaziabad, puts teams in that position. Teams begin with a quiz on operations fundamentals, move on to a case built around a quick-commerce supply chain under pressure, and finish by turning their solution into a decision-ready deck. The competition rewards sound diagnosis, clear numbers and practical thinking over decoration.
Competition Structure:
Stock Check (Eliminatory)
- Format: Online quiz of 15 multiple-choice questions to be completed in 10 minutes. Only the team leader can attempt the quiz.
- Objective: The quiz assesses demand forecasting, inventory control, fulfilment metrics, warehousing and cold chain, and supplier reliability.
- Marking Scheme: Each correct answer scores 1 mark and each incorrect answer loses 0.25 marks.
Answers cannot be edited once you move to the next question.
The COO's Desk
- Format: One-page PDF of up to 400 words, submitted by the Team Leader, with calculations in an XLSX file.
- Objective: Teams diagnose a live operations problem, separate symptoms from root causes, weigh options against hard limits and propose a fix the company can afford.
- Task: Identify every problem in the case, give the reasoning and a solution with rationale for each, and show the calculations.
Control Tower
- Format: Pitch deck submitted on Unstop (PDF/PPTX).
- Objective: Teams turn their caselet solution into a clear, decision-ready deck in which the diagnosis, the fix and the trade-offs are visible on screen.
- Task: 5 to 8 content slides, excluding the Introduction and Thank You slides, covering every problem, its solution, the calculations and a source citation for any outside information.
Note: Teams are not allowed to mention the name of their institution anywhere in the submissions. No changes to the submitted presentation are permitted.
General Rules & Regulations:
- All rounds will be held online.
- Multiple registrations by the same participant will lead to disqualification.
- In case of any dispute, the decision of judges and the organizing committee at IMT Ghaziabad will be final.