Tired of me using the word Excel? Too bad!
Contrary to the original plan, I went to work today, despite the CEO visit.
The day featured a plethora of Excel: I constructed graphs that went directly to department heads, determined the productivity of each line, and began solidifying upcoming fiscal projections. Beyond number-crunching, I aided in exporting SAP database files to Excel, the construction of pivot-tables, and attempted to streamline communication between department chairs. It seems as though all the hard work from the past two days has paid off and SAP is current!
More importantly, the controller tasked me with the constructing the “deck” for the CEO: the list of graphs, PPT slides, etc. that would represent the finance department. Although he already composed a few slides, we constructed numerous other financial reports to show off the plant; we, together, also built the period five scrap-map of the plant. And, we decorated three conference rooms with our new graphs! Quite the impressive day by my standards. (In the infamous words of everyone: Yay! Accounting!).
On a less significant note, I met some of the other interns. They work downstairs while I work upstairs; I doubt I’ll be spending much time with them, but I’m glad to know that I’m not the only minnow in the sea of sharks.
After lunch, instead of taking the 2 o’clock tour around the production floor, I went with Gary, the man that does a bit of just about everything (he constructs the factory’s standards, recipe changes, and manages day-to-day finances). Instead of listening to the daily foreman reports, Gary and I looked for places of potential improvement; he knows that I like Industrial Systems and Engineering, which he majored in, so we discussed the ramifications of the current plant setup and the soon-to-be-open line! He appreciated the remarks I had, and I believe we’ll flesh out some of my ideas of the next few days. Who knows, perhaps I’ll leave a more significant mark on the plant than I intended?
The final half-hour of my day consisted of sorting through file cabinets to find White Cheddar Cheez-IT mix files, and calculating the %seasoning by weight of each cracker (data found on the mix sheets) will be my first task tomorrow!
All-in-all, it was an exciting day; I’m looking forward to tomorrow, where we will tackle remaining issues with the 5+7 plan and Ruckus.
