A Smith School graduate student team placed third globally and second in the Americas in the Global Sustainability Supply Chain Student Competition. Their Project MapleGuard tackled inventory waste in fresh produce. They’ll present in Geneva, advancing sustainable supply chain solutions.

Teams from top business schools throughout the United States, Europe and Asia will compete Tuesday, March 27, 2007 in the first-ever Global Supply Chain Competition, a revolutionary real-time simulation developed by researchers at the Smith School and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Competition sponsor Sun Microsystems Inc. donated prizes and powerful servers to host the Web-based game, in which players will compete virtually, all logging on simultaneously from their home campuses to manage the most efficient supply chain.