I'm So Hip... I Ship!

I really loved the shipping department. I'm more able to synthesize my previous rotations, and even the few days that I covered Lucy in Accounts Payable. I definitely got a good introduction to how Billing and Scheduling works in this department. And I felt like the work I got to do, shipping and receiving jobs, paper etc. was critical to our scheduling, as well as our customer satisfaction.

Here is a bullet point summary of what I was able to familiarize myself these past two weeks:

• ordering Shipping supplies (monthly)
• Fed Ex
  
• UPS
• Pioneer Express
• Echo (a brief introduction)
• 3rd Party Shipping
  
• Recycling/Garbage schedule (aluminum plates recycled first day of the month)
  
• International Paper Co. (our new recycling company)
• shipping products and schematics (dummies) to vendors i.e. Apex Die
• receiving paper (check for quantity, type, weight, color, size)! *this was enjoyable, because I made friends with our regular delivery guys
  
• PSI - largely in house (use for vendors and receiving orders)
• Filemaker Pro - use for client shipments and packing slips
  
• making packing slips, job tags, and box labels
  
• on the accounting side: the flow of Purchase Orders
• will call
• Print Broker paper shipments
• departmental organization and vigilance
• Chemical waste count needs to be kept down or else we could incur a fine...certain amounts are very dangerous. Shipping/Plant Manager order pick-ups.
  
• LTL - less than truck load
• Hot Shot - expedited direct shipping (no other stops)
  
• TL - 16 skids and approx. 16,000 lbs.
• Class 70 - printed material