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The first week included general visit to the various
departments within Land O'Lakes distribution department. Among
this is the Trucking Departmentq Warehousing and Lube Department.
First of all we visited the Midland Co-operatives headquarters
where the main computers is housed. In this computer building is
where all the booking or orders for merchandise are made by Unions
who have mini computers at their offices and through which they
call the main office however smaller Co-operatives make their
orders through the telephone. The computer apart from accepting
orders, processes information on the costs of goods.
The Computer prints out the information for an order of the
day, the following day throughaterminal within the Warehousing
department at Midland Co-operatives, Fridley Warehousing for prompt
action of the Warehousing and the Goods Scheduler within the
Trucking Department. The information is first collected by the
Lube plant Co-ordinator and the control clerks, who pass them to
Trucking and then later shipping department.
e...... NOTES: For the purpose of this report I may refer to the
organisation as Midland Co-operatives, Incorporated,
and whenever I do it refers to the portion of
organisation that is now part of the merged Company
with Land O'Lakes that was formerly idland Co-opera­
tives in later report.