Day

Date

Work description (summary)

1st

March 17, 2008

o   See the building;

o   Meet my team;

o   Deal with paperwork: sign my contract, etc;

o   Participation in a team meeting:

§  Introducing myself to the team;

§  Understanding the work that my team members are doing;

2^nd

March 18, 2008

o   Introduction to my project: SCOP

-       Read and study the document: “SCO Overview Paper” in order to understand the overview of the project.

-       Start read the internal wfp homepage in order to understand the project/wfp context;

o   Start thinking in the creation of my web page;

3^rd

March 19, 2008

o   Continue the study of overview of SCOP;

o   Make a resume paper about the most important concepts in WPF/SCOP context;

o   Start reading the documents:

-          SCO-EFFECTIVENESS-FOOD-PROCUREMENT;

-          SCO-EFFECTIVENESS-OCEAN-TRANSPORTATION;

4^th

March 20, 2008

o   Continue the study about the last two documents;

5^th

March 25, 2008

o   Start reading the documents:

-          User's Guide-Lead -Time -Tool – Field;

-          Memo from Director ODT - Aug '07 - with attachments;

o    

6^th

March 26, 2008

o   Meeting with Yann Ilboudo, that worked in SCOPE since Jan 2007:

-          Overview of SCOPE by Yann;

-          Presentation (1^st approach) of some tools used in SCOPE:

§  Import Parity Form;

o   Working in my web site: http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~em00007/

7 ^th

March 27, 2008

o   Meeting with Yann Ilboudo:

-          Presentation of:

§  Lead Time Tool;

o   Participation in 1^st “Jour Fixe”: a meeting with all the Division Leaders involved in the Supply Chain to analyze and review the project;

8 ^th

March 28, 2008

o   Study of the Lead Time Tool;

o   Read the document in order to understand better the project: Memo from Director ODT - Aug '07 - with attachments;

o   Meeting with the Pedro Figueiredo, the 1^st manager of the SCOP:

-          Overview of the project;

9 ^th

March 31, 2008

o   1^st Meeting with my advisor:

-          Overview of the SCOP;

-          Talking about ours motivation and expectations;

-          My role in the SCOP team: re-thinking the project, introduce 6sigma methodology, improve the process, work with the team;

o   Make a resume about the all information that I read in the last 2 weeks, with the more important SCOP concepts;

10^th

April 1, 2008

o   Understand the Financial Process in WFP as a mean to understand all the logistics process in WFP: read the document: WFP_transport_financial_process;

o   Study the WFP Business Process through the observation of process design in Wings 2: http://docustore.wfp.org/stellent/webs/w2as-is/index.html

o   Meeting with Pedro Figueiredo, the last SCOP manager and Temmy Tanubrata the new SCOP manager; (see meetings notes)