Tuesday in Atlanta!!

Here was my schedule for Tuesday, June 8th in Atlanta:

7 AM - 8 AM - Breakfast at the hotel, same as before!

8 AM - 9 AM - Introduction to Coca Cola supply chain practices, given by Ron Lewis, the vice President for the North American Supply Chain. The over-arching goals of supply chain management are:
1. Have no customer out of stock of coca cola products
2. Use as little "backroom space" as possible at customer locations
3. Use customer data to replenish products more accurately

Coca Cola's largest customers are:
1. Wal-Mart (215 Million cases per year)
2. Target (85 Million cases per year)
3. Kroger Grocery (85 Million cases per year)

There are current 2.7 complaints per million cases for Coca Cola products. The goal for next year is 2.0 complaints per million cases. The most common complaint is leaky bottles/cans.

9 AM - 12:15 PM - Supply Chain Sessions - we had sessions on the use of the Coca Cola recipe in concentrated forms, quality product management, warehousing & delivery, technology in the supply chain

12:15 PM - 1 PM - Lunch - Mexican food! Beef & chicken fajitas, tamales, rice & beans, hot sauce, quacamole, tortilla soup, chips, tres leches cake, & sopapillas

1 PM - 4:30 PM - Curriculum Overview - All the new Coca Cola employees in the university leadership program go through a manual that is tailored to our job. So each day I will work at my location, and at home I use the manual to make sure I'm learning everything I need. In the curriculum overview, we went over the structure of our program and the manual that accompanies our program. For example, I will ride with a Coca Cola delivery man for a day. Then after that day, I will go home and read about way managers schedule delivery men, the routes they take, and the factors that influence delivery. In this meting, all the new sales managers were together in one room. Some of them had been interns last year. The former interns gave us a lot of advice on how the program works. They had an internship book last year, so they talked about how they used it.

4:30 PM - 5 PM - Meeting in the conference room about schedule updates

5 PM - 6 PM - time to dress for dinner

6 PM - 11 PM - Dinner Cruise at Stone Mountain Park - this evening we took a bus to Stone Mountain for dinner. Stone mountain is the largest naturally occuring slab of granite in the world. On the side of the granite, confederate generals are carved, but we couldn't see them from the boat. Also, on the mountain there is a light show and fire works. Around the mountain, there is a lake. We loaded an old fashion paddle boat and ate a dinner buffet. For dinner was: fried chicken or roast beef with corn, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls, rice, cheesecake, and chocolate cake. The picture below is of the view from our table:

After dinner, there was a dance!!! What?!?!? Everyone danced and it was so fun! When we got tired of dancing, we could go on the top deck to watch a fireworks show. What entertainment!!!