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       ❖ What did you do right and what did you do wrong?


       I  feel,  what  I  did  right was  to  keep  my  manager  in  loop  throughout  the  2  month  duration,  taking  regular
       feedbacks from him kept me on-track. Moreover, I would say that I was lucky enough to find relevant research
       papers to support the scientific technique for demand forecasting of NPIs.
       What I did wrong was to not start preparing my presentation from the very beginning. During my mid-review,
       my interim ppt lacked content and it did not do justice to the amount of work I had done till date. My mid-
       review didn’t go well.



       ❖ What are the things to keep in mind in the internship?
       •  Effective communication is the key. Asking questions before starting our work is extremely important and
          we must always look for the underlying objective behind the assigned task. Simply finishing our work would
          never help us.
       •  Figuring out all the stakeholders associated with your work is extremely important. While working with SCM
          team, we need to map the interests of sales & marketing departments along with our insights before arriving
          at any conclusion.
       •  Give Bold recommendations, but always back them up with appropriate data.
       •  Never  outrightly  point  out  mistakes  in  the  current  processes.  Be  humble  and  put  forth  your
          recommendations for improvements. It is always better to tell someone that if we do a task other way
          round, our productivity will increase rather than telling them that they are doing this the wrong way.

       ❖ What pre-internship preparation do you suggest for juniors?

       •  Brush up your concepts of operations & supply chain. Being from NITIE, we don’t want to be caught flat foot
          in areas like forecasting, inventory optimization & warehousing.
       •  Learn at least one tool to make a visually appealing Dashboard, be it Macros in Excel or R/python etc. It will
          give you brownie points while you present your work to higher management.
       •  And the most important aspect. There can be cases where you feel that the scope of your summer project
          is too narrow and there is a lot more that you can accomplish in these 2-months. In such cases, finish the
          assigned tasks asap and step-up to your mentor with your recommendations as to what else can be done.
       •  On the flip side, if the scope of your project is too wide. Talk to your mentor about the possibilities of
          narrowing  it  down to  specific objectives. Because,  in the  end,  the  achieved objectives will  be weighed
          against the assigned tasks.

       ❖ Anything else you would like to add

       Summer Internships are not about getting a PPO.

       It is an opportunity for us to analyse whether this is the right organization for us to work. While the management
       team is assessing us on various fronts, it is also important that we assess the organization and decide whether
       this is the culture that we fit in.







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