Space Bucks
unconventional
India-specific
Set in Ahmedabad, India; the figures and context are India’s.What this case is about
Your client is the CEO of an Indian space firm based in Ahmedabad that imports uranium from agencies located on Mars and Venus. The client pays these agencies using space jackets, with payments measured as jackets per kilogram of uranium. The client suspects that their payments to Mars and Venus agencies are not efficient and wants you to analyze whether there is inefficiency in these payments and how to improve it.
Objective
Determine if the client’s payments to Mars and Venus agencies are efficient and recommend strategies to optimize these payments.
Skills this case tests
Structuring the problem
Working the numbers
Judgement and recommendation