Internship Narrative: John Deere

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Internship Narrative
As a supply chain major, there are several types of positions that are related to manufacturing. There are positions dealing with resource management. There are positions handling production efficiency. There are positions looking at delivery methods. The Student Supply Management position at John Deere will give me knowledge in all of these categories throughout the entire summer. It will allow me to improve skills already obtained and develop new skills in multiple departments which will ultimately help me decide which area of supply chain I want to be apart of.
Having a clear goal to be completed within the first month of an internship will immediately help me learn about John Deere’s systems. My first SMART goal is …show more content…

My second SMART goal for the internship is to be able to confidently negotiate with a John Deere supplier by learning to recognize the details of each part in production and compare the different supplier possibilities using supplier cost databases by June 30, 2018. The internship will help me achieve this goal by having my supervisor demonstrate several make versus buy decisions with the purpose of me gaining the knowledge of how John Deere selects its suppliers. After gaining the initial knowledge of important supplier criteria my internship lets me participate in resourcing activities. These resourcing activities include looking at the history of suppliers and collecting cost data to eliminate unqualified suppliers. Similarly, Supply Chain Management has taught me knowledge of make versus buy decisions. In this class, we had weekly activities using Excel to find a company’s break-even point for units produced. The results received from this analysis helped me understand if a company’s decision to use a supplier would be more beneficial at a certain number of units produced. Although this knowledge was discussed in class, selecting a supplier is a skill I plan to learn from other workers at John Deere. During my internship, other workers will teach me the skill of gathering and analyzing historical data to make real-time decisions about suppliers. Learning how to select a supplier will be an aspect used in daily activities, but it will be critical to understand information from an accounting department

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