Managing equipment deliveries for The University of Nebraska

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Part 4: Command Center for the project.

Managing FF&E deliveries worth $6 million for The University of Nebraska Health Center and UNMC College of Nursing This blog is part of summer 2018 coursework requirement for Digital Insights and Analytics taught by Prof. Brandon Nutting at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. This blog post is the fourth of the five in the series. Part 1: Getting a clear understanding of what you are expected to do. Part 2: Organize, Consult, Discuss and then Instruct. Part 3: Prepare to accept deliveries (and prepare to return some) In this vlog post we will be discussing Part 4: Command Center for the project. Music courtesy - https://www.bensound.com I hope you found this blog helpful. The next blog post in this series are as follows: Part 5: A quick chat with Project Manager - Joe Goodwater and Construction Manager - Grant Watson.

Part 3: Prepare to accept deliveries (and prepare to return some)

Managing FF&E deliveries worth $6 million for The University of Nebraska Health Center and UNMC College of Nursing This blog is part of summer 2018 coursework requirement for Digital Insights and Analytics taught by Prof. Brandon Nutting at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. This blog is the third of the five in the series. Part 1: Getting a clear understanding of what you are expected to do. Part 2: Organize, Consult, Discuss and then Instruct. In this blog post we will be discussing Part 3: Prepare to accept deliveries (and prepare to return some) After a couple of runs on site to accept deliveries, I realized that I need to be better prepared! I then started to make full use of all the pockets on my safety vest. I had to keep my hands free. Thus each required item I carried got assigned to a specific pocket. Here is a list of items that made my job easy on this project - ( Depending on project needs, this list could vary.)

Part 1: Get a clear understanding of what you are expected to do.

Managing FF&E deliveries worth $6 million for The University of Nebraska Health Center and UNMC College of Nursing This blog is part of summer 2018 coursework requirement for Digital Insights and Analytics taught by Prof. Brandon Nutting at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Image Courtesy - Nebraska Today When I was assigned to manage $6 million worth of procurement orders and deliveries for Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment (FF&E) for The University of Nebraska Health Center and UNMC college of Nursing at UNL , I knew it would require a LOT of attention to details. At the beginning I was a little nervous with the number of stakeholders involved, but, I was never too worried or stressed simply because we had an excellent team in place that always worked together. I am sharing my experience and lessons learnt with the hope that you may benefit from it. The discussion is divided into 5 blogs or parts focusing on one step at a time

Part 2: Organize, Consult, Discuss and then Instruct.

Managing FF&E deliveries worth $6 million for The University of Nebraska Health Center and UNMC College of Nursing This blog is part of summer 2018 coursework requirement for Digital Insights and Analytics taught by Prof. Brandon Nutting at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. This blog post is the second of the five blog posts in the series. Part 1: Getting a clear understanding of what you are expected to do. In this blog post we will be discussing Part 2 – Organize, Consult, Discuss and then Instruct. While organizing this data I kept in mind only one thing - PEOPLE. I thought about all the people that may need to use this data and what type of data (in what form) they may need. This was not a research project. It was an ongoing construction project with a many teams involved. The intention of data organization was simple - To help anyone accessing the data set get the information they need. In a research project one would first gathe