How to Answer: Describe a project or idea that was implemented primarily because of your efforts. What was your role? What was the outcome?
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21. Describe a project or idea that was implemented primarily because of your efforts. What was your role? What was the outcome?
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1. Focus in one subject until finished.
2. During my experience as logistics development engineer at Brazilian foods. I was taken for a training at the company's different departments. As I was at the logistics department, I have noticed a process which was not optimal for such a essential part of the business, which was the routing plan for almost 30 trucks. Having a strong background in IE, I have used one of our techniques which is (TSP). The outcome of this test, I have found an optimal route for 4 delivery schedules that I tested. After that, I have presented my work to my direct manager, and by my finding. This triggered to adopt a route optimization software which was implemented successfully and we made a saving of operation cost by 500,000 $
3. Implemented Road Net project which was initiated after analyzing the routing for delivery of out trucks. The idea was implemented later on with a project saving of almost 500,000$ across the kingdom during 2013/2014
4. With my research, I gathered that the woven material, kevlar would be the ideal material which we could use however with limitations in funding, I realised that styrofoam would be the most practical material as it provides great protection and immense lightness.