Personal Narrative: My Day To Day Operations

Managing day to day operations is an aspect of the business field that has been of great interest since my term served in the U.S. military. I was a Supply Noncommissioned Officer for a headquarter unit consisting of approximately three hundred soldiers. My job responsibility included the request, receipt, issue, and accountability of individual, organizational, installation, and expendable supplies and equipment; property accountability using the army’s state of art accounting and management system: Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced (PBUSE); ensuring critical assets were on hand or ordered; monitoring of all sensitive items and unit inventories; initiating Financial Liability Investigations of Property Loss (FLIPL); accounts for the health, personal welfare, and training of three Soldiers and directly responsible for over $90 million worth of government property. …show more content…
To be specific, my day to day tasks included overseeing prequalification process; review, verify and track from sub-contractors; issuing Blanket Sub-contract Releases to sub-contractors; soliciting pricing from vendors and sub-contractors for sub-contract services; preparing bid-summaries for all solicited pricing; reviewing bids with project managers and cost controller to ensure pricing is within budget constraints; developing schedules and timelines with sub-contractors prior to award of purchase order or sub-contract; invoice reconciliation; cost control and reports. All of these tasks required a lot of data entry and interaction with Information Technology (IT) systems and different software programming. Understanding IT played a vital role in the successful completion of my duties both in the military and for this