Inv. Control & Traffic
The traffic project that Jack did this summer; Marking Completed Traffic contracts; how many back logged Traffic contracts did Jack completed?
2,500
What are the two varieties that Jack planned & released of new crop harvest and fall shipping schedule? (Jack : what were the difference between the two?
CY 26 LRK & CY 26 Mayo
LRK was 100% from the dealer pile
MAYO was 100% from the TVS origination / grower pile that TVS needs to mill/clean
How many miles did Jack & Mike drive all over ND last summer for Jack’s field rep internship?
A lot!
Yes or no; Jack knows the address of the new Denver office?
NO…He rented a room really closes to the old building, not realizing we moved.
What year was TBC established?
1917
How many miles is between Colgate, ND to our COI packaging plant for a dry van carrier to drive?
1,800 miles
We were explaining to Jack about the importance to keep the furthest packaging plants from the growing areas full and why Colgate ships almost all railcars to both COI and LAV
Jack began his internship assuming we release trucks when a customer calls. Week one, he learned all varieties are released against a weekly demand position system. What is the name of the system?
Flowmaster
What is the estimated gross revenue that a NE LRK grower will generate from their CY 26 TBC acreage contract?
TBC offered an All Production contract at $50 per CWT at 24 cwt per acres for an estimated gross revenue of $1,200
Corn would have traded at $6.48 per bushel to be competitive
One painstaking tray at a time. This is the total and variety Jack had to sort by hand?
50 pounds of lentils
The roundhouse Trinidad Bean & Elevator picked up at Bridgeport in 1955 was built by this railroad, whose name still shows up on Nebraska grain lines?
The Burlington
The traffic project that Jack did this summer; Marking Completed Traffic contracts went back to what calendar date as the last contracts that were completed?
December of 2024
This is Jack's unbroken run of daily empties reports, roughly seven and a half weeks of business days?
37
How many acres did Jack and Mike Amundson scouted, last summer during Jack's summer internship at Colgate?
26,000 acres
Sterling trip: Plant managers generally like this business; plant production mostly doesn't. Same tonnage as any other order, but many times the bags, changeovers, and labor hours.
Per Shaun Knutson the USDA 1-lb and 2-lb business
Should Jack & Carver launch a new GLP-1 Bean Smash for TBC?
Debatable 🤔
During an average month, how many invoices/BOL/COA are spent to the Inventory Control inbox?
1,830 entries per month
How many purchase releases & transfers did Jack created / generated this past summer?
471
What was Jack's favorite project that he worked on this summer at TBC?
Bulk OPEX & Shrink analysis, where he did a PowerPoint that he presented to Steve & Shaun
The largest topic/concept that Jack learned this past summer that he was never exposed too and had no previous experience/knowledge about?
Commodity market structural: differences between corn, soy and edible beans
Jack found one of these brass giveaways, standard-issue promotional swag across the ag business in the '70s and '80s, stamped with the company name?
A belt buckle