Fifteen. (Week 15)
Nah, I'm kidding. Being born with small, Asian eyes gave me the privelege
to not have these dark circles and bags under them, I believe this is one of
the reasons why people liked looking at my eyes. Anyways, this blog post is not
supposed to be dedicated on my eyes. I told you about my eyes because my
weekend has been very busy, as it usually is. This morning I read about my
horoscope, and I read that I will be the busiest bee this week, doing all the
works due for the coming week. That's odd, because I have done all last night,
and that might be the reason for my metaphorical dark circles and bags.
March 18 will mark the end of many things, and I believe that this is one
thing I would like to reflect on, the end of many things. Like I told
you in one of my blog posts, life is a cycle of endings and graduations. But
just as we graduate from a cycle, or a cycle has ended, what happens next? What
have you learned? Did you change? If you did, did you change for the better? If
not, was it because who you were has sufficed to the community you currently
are in? Were your expectations met? How was it to be called a worker? A part of
the workforce? An employee? How was it being praised for the work you did well?
Did you have fun? By making an assessment of all of these, are you ready to
face the next cycle of life?
Of course, these questions have a very important role on my last blog post,
which will be next week. For now, I would like to give you details about the
work I am assigned in.
This is my work table. Yup, I did clean and piled those folders
over there neatly, for presentation (and Instagram post, maybe? Haha!). Those
folders were forms I am assigned on giving employees who needs requisition slip
for disposing scrap: milk powder, empty drums, lecithin tanks, and others
(different types of wastes that cannot be sold of to scrap buyers). Have I told
you of my responsibilities here as an intern? I will now be discussing it and I
will also be including all the things that I have done, proving you that this
internship has been the most productive cycle of my life yet! First I am to
assist in filing and documenting Compliance/Governance related matter.
Honestly, this was the least thing that I have done. My supervisor, who is the
compliance manager in Nestle, is a very hands on with her work, so she takes
compliance and governance seriously, also knowing that the international
auditors will be here in May.
I also assisted in the reconciliation, files/documents management related
to Scrap Management (Material Condemned Slip and Factory Delivery Receipt,
etc.). This might be my major responsibility. All in all, I have to do 3
reconciliations every month. What I have learned, and proved, is that there
will really be bad goods from the products made. Ever heard of the bad debts,
written off terms in accounting? These were it. Part of the Scrap Management is
the scrap powders. These are milk powders that were either rejected from the
quality testing, or those milks coming from distribution centers that were
expired, and such. I will never forget what my supervisor told me, "as much
as possible, we should also earn from these scrap". And so, these scrap
powder were sold off to the scrap buyers, who then makes them into animal
feeds! Also, they sell the drums and tanks where the raw materials were placed.
However, solid wastes, hazardous wastes, and other wastes cannot be sold off,
these, then are being disposed.
Going back, the reconciliation I have to make are: customer balance
reconciliation, I must ensure that the we know how much the customer has paid,
if its over or underpaid, and how many days did they pay after its hauling.
Next one the is the scrap powder reconciliation, this is where we track how
much of the sold scrap powders were sold as animal feeds by our scrap buyer. As
much as possible, we aim to get it to more than a hundred percent, to make sure
that the scrap powder were not just staying inside their warehouse. Lastly, the
most difficult of all, is the scrap sales reconciliation. I couldn't explain in
detail, because it's as complicated as it sounds. But boy, it was hard as rock!
I assist in other costing related requirements, as well with the procurement
team. I deliver purchase orders to the technical stores to have them signed by
the storekeeper, organize evaluation sheets and create a monitoring sheet, I
also need to monitor the factory delivery receipts, which were over a hundred
each week! I also experienced doing a monthly inventory in
the General Stores, and it was a good experience for me to see that every bit
of a spare part is important for the company. Once there is a variance, this
will be discussed and tracked down. No ifs, no buts.
Working for a manufacturing company is as tiring as I mentioned above, but
you will actually learn a lot of things. And also, despite getting tired, you
will feel fulfilled when you get these work done.
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