Projects to do

A sports club wants its pavilion ready before the season, but rushing work costs more and adds risk in different places along the schedule.

The Mormugao port handles bulk cargo and containers that link Goa's mines, factories and traders to the world, but few students know how cargo flows through it or where it slows down.

A single-screen cinema has a fixed number of seats and shows each day, so every unsold seat is lost income, yet discounts can teach audiences to wait.

Small swings in what shoppers buy grow bigger at every stage back to the bottling plant, so upstream firms end up with too much stock or none.

An ice lolly maker sells most in a few hot months, so building capacity ahead of demand risks idle machines while lagging behind risks lost sales.