![]() ![]() As the fall semester already nears midterm, Ejnik is teaching his chemistry classes while overseeing a supply chain of his own, inventorying each of the donated items and moving them along to their eventual users. Within a week after submitting the list, Ejnik said pallets of new equipment began arriving at the university receiving dock. They donated to other universities and nonprofits too.”Īssociate Professor of Chemistry John Ejnik was asked to work with MilliporeSigma to identify items that could be put to use in labs, classrooms and facilities at UW-Whitewater. “(MilliporeSigma) then turned around and said they wanted to donate some of the things to UW-Whitewater. ![]() “They (students) looked at hundreds of thousands of products that the company had and they created some pretty impressive models filtering out which items they need to donate,” said Prasad. (Screenshot from video courtesy Sameer Prasad, College of Business and Economics/UW-Whitewater) Not shown is Dominic Swanson, another student collaborating on the project. The students worked with data from the company’s Milwaukee warehouse, with results that could have applications at their other warehouses worldwide.įrom left, Sameer Prasad, professor of supply chain management, discusses a capstone project for MilliporeSigma with Ziran Deng, Rachel Anderson, Luke Ruszczynski, Cole Mikolajczyk and Jim Hecht. ![]() “They are a great supporter of our program.”Īs their capstone project last fall, supply chain management majors Rachel Anderson, from Menomonie, Ziran Deng, from Weifang, China, Jim Hecht, from Oconomowoc, Cole Mikolajczyk, from New Berlin, Luke Ruszczynski, from Oak Creek, and Dominic Swanson, from Union, Illinois, were tasked to develop a “decision support system” to help MilliporeSigma identify slower-moving products from its immense inventory that could be culled and put to greater use as donations. “This relationship has gone back years,” said Prasad of the connection between MilliporeSigma and the alumnus, who prefers to remain unnamed, and the supply chain management faculty and students at UW-Whitewater. Sameer Prasad, a professor of supply chain management who guided the students’ project, describes the donation as the completion of a “perfect circle” in which longstanding relationships between a UW-Whitewater alumnus at MilliporeSigma’s facility in Milwaukee and faculty at UW-Whitewater opened a door for students to work on authentic supply chain management projects. A project that began in spring 2020 by six seniors in supply chain management at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater resulted in a generous donation of equipment to the university’s science departments from MilliporeSigma, the life-science business of the Merck Group, based in Darmstadt, Germany, with significant locations in Madison, Milwaukee and Sheboygan Falls. ![]()
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