Connecting the dots! - Summer Internship in a Global Foods Company
A typical night during my summer internship, yeah right not day, would consist of scrambling through heaps of data and excel files to find sourcing opportunity for one of the world's biggest and most reputed Foods company based out of USA. I never experienced working in a start-up before, but now I can very well relate to the experience having to chart out every objective and every strategy to tackle it, on my own. Since, I was tasked to find out the most economical supplier of a particular agricultural commodity with the best possible quality, there were no quantifiable goals set for me by my mentors. "Welcome to the club! Global Sourcing is a really niche function where you will be untangling a labyrinth of filters and sub-filters as to why NOT to choose this supplier or that. If anything survives those filters, you just got your million-dollar supplier!", I remember one of the previous interns telling me, with characteristic solemnness, on phone during my first week of internship. He couldn't have been more correct.
