A Day In The Life Of A Supply Chain Coordinator At International Rescue Committee
A day for a Supply Chain Coordinator at the International Rescue Committee involves "orchestrating or conducting many different activities, involving many different people" by answering calls, training staff, solving problems, and working to improve operations. Dustin emphasizes the importance of also beginning each day with personal time for exercise, reflection, and general preparation to ensure optimal performance during work hours, noting that, "if I don't do that, I feel that my performance is poor generally later in the day".
Supply Chain Management, Coordination, Problem-Solving, Time Management, Operational Improvement
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Dustin Weil
Supply Chain Coordinator
International Rescue Committee
University of Minnesota
Arizona State University (ASU) - W. P. Carey
Humanities
Manufacturing, Operations & Supply Chain, Nonprofit, Foundations & Grantmaking
Operations and Project Management
Scholarship Recipient
Video Highlights
1. The role involves orchestrating many different activities and juggling various responsibilities.
2. A key aspect of the job is synthesizing information to prioritize tasks based on importance and urgency.
3. The coordinator spends a significant portion of the day answering calls, training people, and responding to problems, while also seeking to improve overall operations.
Transcript
What does a day in the life of a supply chain coordinator look like?
I'm not able to speak for all supply chain coordinators, but I can tell you what a typical day in my life looks like. Usually, I wake up really early, which is my preference, around 5:00 or 5:15 AM. If I don't wake up on my own, my cat will wake me up, so I have an organic alarm clock to help me out.
I usually like to take a couple of hours at the beginning of the day to shower, exercise, reflect, study, or read. I've found it's very important to preserve a chunk of time upfront to wake myself up, become centered, and even just putter around the house a little. If I don't do that, I feel my performance is generally poor later in the day.
From typically 8:00 or 9:00 AM until maybe 5:00 or 6:00 PM, that's when I need to be on professionally. That's when people are constantly coming to me with different questions and problems that need solving. There's a lot of work to do during those hours.
In the evening, I like to go home and spend time with family, unwind, relax, and digest the experiences of the day to prepare myself for the next day.
For those of you watching this video, you're probably most interested in the middle part of that: what I do during the hours when I need to be on the clock. As a supply chain coordinator, and as I mentioned in a different video clip, my job really has to do with orchestrating or conducting many different activities involving many different people.
So there's a lot of juggling involved and a lot of synthesizing information. There are a zillion things I could be focusing on, but not all of them are equally important or urgent. Throughout the day, I typically need to be answering calls, training people, responding to problems as they come up, and trying to understand our operating context so I can try to improve our operations over time.