Today I worked with the payroll and human resoucorces manager, Sarah Jacobson. The Payroll Manager manages and coordinates activities for staff and payroll systems including the processing of employment applications. She is also in status confirmation via e-Verify, payroll input, reporting and employee benifit administration.

Today I worked with Mike Reeves, the Information Technology Director. He just went over wtih me, what the daily basics of his job are. We went around the company buildings and did a checklist that includes:
Check Exchange queue
Check server status lights
Check server UPS status lights
Check queues on Barracuda Spam/virus filter
Check Barracuda web filter for infection reports
Check AWS wireless status

As said before, Mike does every one of these checks Monday-Friday.

Today I worked with Pam Woodruff, Sales order entry and EDI. Order entry is responsible for the manual/electronic entry of all customer PO's on a daily basis, coordinationof EDI transactions and maintenance of Sales Contracts and Rebates within Process Pro. She also recommended that for my professional career, I may want to consider joining Linkedin.com.

Today I worked with Robin Thompson, accounts payable. Accounts payable is responsible for matching the receipts and purchase orders to Vendor invoices. Resolve discrepancies as they relate to Vendor invoices. She works with the credit memos. Accounts payable also see's every single receipt that comes through the business. She informed me that the most important jobs of accounting in general is speed and accuracy.

Today I went in and talked to the CFO, Jim Jumpeter, and he told me that for the next week and a half I will be working with the accounting department:
Wednesday: Accounts receivable- Tracy Stanger
Thursday: Accounts Payable- Robin Thompson
Friday: Slaes Order Entry and EDI- Pam Woodfruff
Monday: Information Technology- Mike Reeves
Tuesday: Payroll and Human Resources- Sarah Jacobson
Wednesday: Senior Director of Finance and Accounting and Controller- Greg Mahre
Thursday: Accounting overview and Wrap-up- Jim Jumpeter

Today was accounts receivable. Accounts receivable is responsible for the application of customer payments and following up with customers on past due accounts. Resolve customer deductions. Process credits for returns and marketing deductions. Tracy works with electric fund transfers. These are received through wire

Today I sat in on The 9. We are now going to begin to make Whey Protein. We talked about our orders to Iran and what products to release to packaging (RTP). We are currently waiting for the approval of the UPC's and waiting on the purchasing order (PO) for the new softgels. I have also been informed that over the next week and a half, I will be working with the accounting department to learn how their jobs works and a summary of what their jobs entail.

Today I worked on notorizing documents, where I was stamping each individual document to make it valid. After that I worked in the back on the production line for the rest of the day. I was putting and pulling  finished and unfinished product off the line. Then boxing it up, putting it on the pallets and using a hand jack to take them over to shippping and distribution. This way it can be shipped to the customer. 

Tomorrow I am leaving for vacation in Penn-Yan, New York. After that I will back to work the 23rd for the next two weeks, my last day of work is 8-3-12. Today I was using Process Pro to determine the price we bought the product for, how much it costs to manufacture, and what our percent of revenue is at the end of the process.
I also attended a conference call with an international tax expert company. Steve, the CEO, told me it is always better to pay a company to make sure you follow all of the requirments when dealing with international trade. It is cheaper than having to pay the consequences of doing something wrong down the road. I also learned two valuable things about life in general. I learned to always be a generous tipper, and I also learned that life can be compared to a game of Texas Hold em'. Meaning everyone should have to pay a big or small blind in order for distributors to have a reliable profit. My next post will be on 7-23-12.

Today I worked in Sales and Marketing. I was working on cutting out labels for four ounce moch bottles to send to new customers in South Africa. I also cut out posters to use as brochure holders. I cut out over 150 different labels to later tape to the moch bottles.

Today I took a fork lift class, I will not recieve my certification, but I will learn about all the different fork lifts, the safety precautions, and how to run them.
A fork lift is considered and industrial truck. There are seven different classes of fork lifts, and a daily checklist that must be followed in order to use the fork lifts correctly.
The seven classes; 
1 Electric counter balance rider
2 Elecrtic narrow isle
3 Electric pallet trucks and burden carirrers 
4 Replica of calss 1, except its powered by gas
5 I/C pneumaic 
6 Towing
7 Rough terrain

Plugging- shifting from drive straight to reverse to brake. (regular braking is faster, its takes the length of one forklift to come to 

Dailly checklist- Use material data sheets