Lawson May’s Post

Throughout my internship at McDonald building group I have been asked to accomplish a lot. Some of these things include ordering of products, returns of products, keeping up with operations timeline, helping with the planning of projects, and making sure that everything runs as smoothly as possible. Now you're probably wondering how these tasks that I have faced relate to supply chain, well let me explain it. When we are building a house, it takes a lot of different materials to get the job done. We order many different things when building a house, for example to frame the house we need wood or granite for countertops or the tile flooring for bathrooms, there is so much that goes into each and every house. So one thing I have been tasked with is ordering some of these goods and materials and the way this relates to supply chain is that this is considered procurement, which is the sourcing of goods and services. Just to give you a better example when we have foundation of a house done we are then ready for the framing stage, so what I’ll do is contact the framing company that we are going to use and set up a date for them to come and frame the house, after we have that set up I have to order all the wood that they will need to complete the job, so I then go and order all the necessities through first builders choice have all the wood delivered to the job site so the framers can get started and frame the house. So I have to procure the materials that are needed. Another example of supply chain at  my internship is reverse logistics, and with many of our projects we end up having leftover unused materials, and so my task is to go through and make sure all the unused materials get returned and make sure that the building supply store gives us a credit back that we can then use on other projects that we have going. Another example of supply chain in my job is planning when we are working on a project we have a operations timeline where we have everything planned out, and what I mean by that is that we have a timeline for when everything is supposed to be done, for example we always schedule the brick layers to come after the framers are done, so I have to make sure things stay on track and if something does go askew I have to adjust out timeline and plan accordingly. While I have accomplished a lot throughout my time here I have run into a few challenges along the way. One of the challenges I have faced during my internship is ordering materials to be dropped off and then receiving the wrong goods when this happens, I’ve had to figure out how to get the right product to our job site and one way I have overcome this problem is through using my people skills and just talking through the problem I am having whether that’s with a co-worker or with our vendors and just figuring out how to solve the problem at hand. #waltonsupplychain #supplychainU J.B. Hunt Transport Department of Supply Chain Management at the University of Arkansas

Walker Butler

Graduate student, CPA candidate

3mo

This sounds like great experience Lawson!

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