Cases by Wee Kwan Eng

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ProGlove Smart Gloves: Let’s Save Four Million Dollars A Day!

by Wee Kwan Eng, Holly Ott, Cheah Sin Mei

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In 2014, ProGlove emerged the third-place winner in Intel’s “Make It Wearable Challenge”. The ProGlove team of four who had met at the Technical University of Munich in Bavaria, Germany, had submitted the idea of a “smart glove,” which was a barcode scanner, motion detector, and RFID reader...

Stock-up vs Stock-out: The Inventory Management Dilemma at a Mobile Clinic

by Alan W. Zeller, Wee Kwan Eng, Cheah Sin Mei

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

The case illustrates the inventory management dilemma at The Star Clinic, a mobile medical clinic. The resident doctor at the clinic prefers commonly prescribed medicines, in particular Panadol, a brand of paracetamol (a pain relief drug), to be well stocked whereas the procurement manager seeks to...

Bottlenecks and Batching in Dragon Fruit Jam Production

by Wee Kwan Eng, Holly Ott, Cheah Sin Mei

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Operations Management

GSH Conserves was an artisanal jam producer in Singapore that specialised in using tropical fruits, such as dragon fruit, lychee, mango, etc., to handcraft high-quality jam in small batches. Founded in 2013 in a home kitchen, the demand for GSH Conserves jam and bottled fruits had grown organically...