Comm Res 160 Journal Entry No. 7

Wednesday

I was finishing my article upon arriving to office when Ms. Tracy Portu, our marketing manager and Sir Vic's boss approached me and asked me if I can do her a favor. Since my co-interns were not around and I'm almost done with my article, I accepted the task. The article for the Great Food Solutions website was due this morning but I was not able to finish it due to reasons I cannot remember anymore.

Ms. Tracy by the way is also from UP. She finished BS Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management. She came from Uniliver Philippines before setting foot to San Miguel Foods Inc.

So the task goes something like this: there is a database of products offered and companies SMFI is partnering with. What I'm supposed to do is to create different sheets which contain the following categories: New Product or Launch, Co-branding, Price Negotiation and other categories I may come up with. Based on the descriptions, I should place each account (or company) to their designated sheets. Aside from that, I should also arrange them according to different channels such as QSR 1, QSR 2, COCO, PCBS, Visayas and Mindanao channels. I don't have any idea what these codes mean.

The task was not easy because I was not sure where each items fit. If they fit to the new product or launch sheet, co-branding sheet or price negotiation sheet. At least for the channel, it was indicated in the database so I just have to place them to their respective books. Plus, there are some items that I need to compute about such as target price minus the original price, the discount the company will get, the volume of the product, total value of discount etc. which I can't make sense of but I just continued doing.

My nape hurt again by the end of the day and I was not able to finish the task within the day. I decided to call it a day and continue doing it the next day.