Time flies when
you’re having fun…!
Hey all,
And hey you lovely summer weather! Right now I am sitting at the roof terrace at Monki HQ during my lunch break, and actually hiding in the shadow to not make my computer melt in the heat.
It has now been a
couple of weeks since I wrote my last blog post about my internship at Monki
HQ, Gothenburg and so much has happened since then!
In the beginning of my internship one of my biggest focus was to understand and start using the various IT-program that Monki uses for planning and purchasing, as well as communicating with the global purchasing office. Today, a couple of weeks later, I know the various programs very well and can daily assist the buying assistant in placing orders, making sure every order includes the right articles, in the right quantity, for the right in price, for the right market, with the right “in shop week” and with the right “time of delivery”. As you can tell is not just about push a button to place an order, there is a lot of work and many preparations in order to do so. Beside helping planning, preparing and placing orders I have also got the responsibility to update the wholesale team new styles in order for them to communicate these ones to Monki’s wholesale partners. This responsibility further includes preparing samples; lab dips and strikes offs for meetings when the wholesale people come visiting Monki HQ to plan upcoming purchase.
In the beginning of my internship one of my biggest focus was to understand and start using the various IT-program that Monki uses for planning and purchasing, as well as communicating with the global purchasing office. Today, a couple of weeks later, I know the various programs very well and can daily assist the buying assistant in placing orders, making sure every order includes the right articles, in the right quantity, for the right in price, for the right market, with the right “in shop week” and with the right “time of delivery”. As you can tell is not just about push a button to place an order, there is a lot of work and many preparations in order to do so. Beside helping planning, preparing and placing orders I have also got the responsibility to update the wholesale team new styles in order for them to communicate these ones to Monki’s wholesale partners. This responsibility further includes preparing samples; lab dips and strikes offs for meetings when the wholesale people come visiting Monki HQ to plan upcoming purchase.
Due to the many
diverse work tasks none of my days look the same, which I really appreciate.
That means I never get bored and continuously learn new things. Further, my
mentors are very encouraging and give me a lot of responsibility to deal with
several more difficult tasks my own. For instance, last week one of my two
mentors were on vacation and instead of putting her work on someone of the
buyer assistants she gave me the responsibility to do her job when she was
away. I have never before absorbed that much knowledge during one week, and the
expression “learning by doing” suddenly got a new meaning for me. And I got my
mentors to thank for that.
Until next time… <3
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