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

Worked on returns for Petsmart. $150,000 worth of the product they returned was inflatable dog collars that they wanted repackaged from oyster-shell casings to cardboard casings. I did returns from 6-23-12 to 7-10-12. Now all of the Petsmarts returns are finished and I have also done returns for companies such as ANDA and Cardinal Health. I have done 51 pallets worth of product over the last couple weeks. I will start a new project within the week. 

Steve Snyder, the CEO of the company has alsways had a policy with his customers, that if they buy a product from him and it does not sell as they would have liked, he will buy his own product back from them. Today 21st Century recieved a notification that Petsmart was returning $250,000 worth of product. Some of it because it expired and did not sell, but most of it, just to be repackaged into different boxes and sent back to their company. So my job is to process all of the procucts individually to make sure they are sending back everything they say they are. That way we can reimburse the company for the correct amount. There are many steps in doing returns that have to be followed. First, I have to separate each individual product. Then, separate each product into their specific lot number on the bottle. Then, finally, log each individual product and separate lot number into the computer. This will tell us if they have sent back rthe correct number of products or not. When putting the products into the computer, I have to write down the procuct name, the UPC number, the specific lot number, the expiration date and the amount of that lot number in the return. This is done for every product. Petsmart returned 51 pallets worth of product.

Today I attended The 9 and the accounting meeting. I was informed in The 9 that we spend $185,000 on a Petsmart commercial that was supposed to be airing within the next week. I also found out in the accounting meeting that we held the customer that only paid $90,000 worth of their product to the original agreement. They we paying the other 10 thousand on Monday.

First thing in the morning, the COO asked me to run him over to the dealership to pick up his car. Later I worked with sales and marketing on what is call the planagram room. This is a room full of samples of every product we make and sell. When a costomer makes and order, we have a four foot by seven shelf display that is used to put up samples of every product they ordered. That way, if they come to the company to look at the labels and bottles, we have them all laid out in alphabetical order for them to see. My job today is to re-organize the planagram room and all the shelves with the different orders. This means I am handed an order sheet and have to go through and clear off all the shelves before I can begin. I look at all the samples and throw out all that are expired. Then, I take the order sheet and put three to six samples of each individual product that is being ordered on the shelf. By the time I am finished, I have put up 300 different products, at three to six a piece and it has taken me six hours of work. the work is not hard, but it is very time consuming.

Today I did not go into work because my uncle Paul passed away. I flew back to Ohio, and will not be back to work in Arizona until June 21, 2012.

Today I was back sitting in on meetings. In the morning I checked my Email and found out they were switching me to an online Timecard. Then I sat in on The 9, and the Accounting meeting. The 9 was relitively similar, everything seemed to be on track and going smoothly. I found out that a lot of orders come in and need to be shipped right at the end of the month so this meant that the end of every month is very busy. Each dividsion was trying to best prepare itself to be ready for the end of the month. During the accounting meeting, I was told that we shipped $100,000 worth of product to a customer, and they only paid $90,000 for the shippment. As I mentioned earlier, this meant that the company have to decide what caused the loss and how to react to it. Was it Goverment trade problems, damaged goods, or the company just trying to not honor their agreement? I also found out that our company does specialized label art for separate companies and states. For example, we are in the midst of making a Chicago Bears label for a customer in Chicago.