Tuesday was travel day to Barcelona to meet with Terri Sekel and Oxsana Dikhtiar who have been working at Checkpoint Systems. Checkpoint is an American company with global operations focused on retail security and information management. Their biggest product line is the theft detection devices you see at the entrance to most retails stores around the world. Terri and Oxsana worked in the city of Terrassa which is probably 15 miles inland from the sea and downtown Barcelona. Checkpoint placed them in a nice apartment (their place right above their head in this pic).
In Spain, dinner time is a bit later than we are used to as evidenced by the fact that we made it to the restaurant a few minutes after 9:00 and were the first people to arrive.
Terri and Oxsana had two projects with Checkpoint...an inventory reduction analysis and a review of customer returns, in both cases looking at business results in both Europe and North America. The common challange of different ERP systems, data quality, etc came into play much like with the Eaton-Europe team, but they still were able to uncover several opportunities for focused improvement. The office situation was very low key and friendly....with people from all over Europe working there. They claimed it had been cool and rainy...but looked pretty nice for my 24 hours in town! Here is a pic of Terri and Oxsana with Carlos Arias, their project manager.
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