JOURNAL

First in foremost, we looked for the companies that we proposed through the internet and luckily it was also approved by our professor.

July 6 – We proposed again 3 companies to our instructor but this time is for our major paper already. We proposed the Damosa Land Inc., Sta. Ana Multipurpose Cooperative (SAMULCO) and Six Eleven Global Services but only SAMULCO was approved. Likewise, our approval letter was also completely signed within that day.

July 8 – We gave our approval letter to SAMULCO.

July 11 – We called SAMULCO for the follow-up of our letter and they answered that they have already approved it and we will just meet their MIS Personnel on July 14.

July 14 – My group mates, Dolor Mancera, Jovylin Sandoval and I, had our first interview with the MIS supervisor of SAMULCO on that day. As we have introduced with each other first, we have found out that the supervisor knew our instructor because as what he said, he was also been his student before in UIC and actually until now they still have a communication with each other. Anyways, the interview is for our Assessment on their Information System. And with that interview, we have gained informations about their company and their MIS but we think these informations are not enough so therefore maybe on some other times we should visit there again.

August 26 – This day was our second interview to SAMULCO , it should be on August 24 which is also the date scheduled in our Gantt chart, but because of the emergency meeting that the MIS Supervisor had, that’s why we cannot go there.

On the other hand, this day we’ve interviewed the MIS Supervisor about our follow up questions regarding on their systems. With that interview,we discovered that they have a problems now in terms of outsourcing because of the financial matters, that’s why they have decided to make it insource already and they are still working on it now. Aside from that, we also asked about their SWOT and STEEP but unfortunately, he didn’t answered on it because for him, he is not the right person to talk about it. Therefore, he suggested us to have an interview regarding on it with their HR Manager also for the current problems that they have in POS System, he also suggested us to interview their Operation Manager of the company. But before that, we should first give an approval letter to them for the formal process.

September 1 - This day, we gave the 2 another approval letter which addressed to the HR Manager and the Operation Manager. The letter for HR Manager was received by the secretary but the other one was rejected because the name is wrong, it’s just that we just followed what’s the name that had given to us by their MIS Supervisor so because of that, we made another approval letter for it.

September 22 - As you have noticed, it took for 3 weeks passed before we went back again to SAMULCO because it seems that we were so busy at that time with the other projects in other subjects. Actually, it always had postponed or moved our time to go there that’s why it ends up like this, we are now getting panicky. And we admitted it that it’s our fault.

On the contrary, we gave already the new approval letter to the Operation Manager this day. And he approved it without further ado. Then he scheduled us to have some interview by tomorrow, Sept. 23 at around 3:00 pm. This day also, we have told by the secretary in HR that they cannot entertain us within this week or on the incoming weeks for an interview because they are so busy with their recreational activities at the moment.

September 23 - We went to SAMULCO this day on the time that we had agreed for the interviewed but we waited there for almost an hour thinking that we will come back from where he was at that time but suddenly, he texted on us saying that he cannot meet us that time because he has his emergency business meeting. So we had agreed again that we will just move it on Sept.25 within the time of 1:00PM – 5:00PM.

September 25 – This is the day that we finally had our interview with the Operation Manager of SAMULCO. Since he is the Operation Manager who is in-charge in their COOPMART, so we interviewed him about their POS System and the problems behind it. With that interview, we found out that they have a lot of problems on their systems. And as he said, they are now trying to find solutions to resolve these things. Furthermore, since we can’t already interview their HR Manager for the SWOT and STEEP analysis, we then asked the Operation Manager about this. Opportunely, he also answered us. He actually lends us also their manual for additional info and references. After the interview, we already have our picture taking with him.

September 26 – We came back to SAMULCO for the data that we haven’t yet obtain which is their networking scheme or the system flow. We also have again our picture taking again with the personnel for evidences. And with all of that, we think this is going to be the last visit that we were going to have with SAMULCO. We are so thankful for the personnel that we had interviewed specifically the MIS Supervisor and the Operation Manager for being so good, approachable and accommodating to us.