ENSURING UNIFORM FRUIT QUALITY 

 By : Lalisa Cruz 

 Challenge 

 In my last employment , I worked in a start - up food manufacturer in Metro Manila .   I was the sole R&D   personnel in that company , and part of my job was sourcing suppliers of fresh fruits .   Having no prior   experience with procuring fruits , it was a huge challenge for me to find a good , reputable supplier to   transact business with .   As soon as I was able to find a few good ones , the bigger challenge for me was to   ensure that the quality of the fruits is uniform among the suppliers I found . 

 Selection 

 I selected the storytelling tool for this particular challenge because I believe that it is the best tool in   obtaining the relevant information I seek .   Since the challenge was for me to ensure that the quality of   fruits is uniform among the suppliers , I had to know the postharvest processes that each of the suppliers   employ . 

 Application 

 I talked to the suppliers individually .   In a casual manner , I was able to obtain non - proprietary information   from them through the storytelling tool .   They shared with me their postharvest processes and from there ,   I found what specific processes produced the best quality fruits .   As such , I was able to determine the   particular supplier to use as benchmark .   With the supplier ’s express consent , our company adopted these   practices as subsequent process steps for those lower quality fruits coming from other suppliers in order   that all the fruits have uniform quality . 

 Insight 

 This tool effectively improved the uniformity of the quality of fruits .   From the experience of using this   tool , I was able to gain the following insights : ( 1 ) storytelling is as effective as objective approaches ; ( 2 )   storytelling gives us relevant baseline information which we can work our improvements from ; and ( 3 )   design thinking , in general , utilizes the lean six sigma approach . 

 Approach 

 I would n’t use any other tool in this scenario because the suppliers ’ postharvest processes are internal to   them , and so it is only through storytelling that they are able to share such information with people   outside their organization . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: Lalisa Cruz
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: ENSURING UNIFORM FRUIT QUALITY 

 By : Lalisa Cruz 

 Challenge 

 In my last employment , I worked in a start - up food manufacturer in Metro Manila .   I was the sole R&D   personnel in that company , and part of my job was sourcing suppliers of fresh fruits .   Having no prior   experience with procuring fruits , it was a huge challenge for me to find a good , reputable supplier to   transact business with .   As soon as I was able to find a few good ones , the bigger challenge for me was to   ensure that the quality of the fruits is uniform among the suppliers I found . 

 Selection 

 I selected the storytelling tool for this particular challenge because I believe that it is the best tool in   obtaining the relevant information I seek .   Since the challenge was for me to ensure that the quality of   fruits is uniform among the suppliers , I had to know the postharvest processes that each of the suppliers   employ . 

 Application 

 I talked to the suppliers individually .   In a casual manner , I was able to obtain non - proprietary information   from them through the storytelling tool .   They shared with me their postharvest processes and from there ,   I found what specific processes produced the best quality fruits .   As such , I was able to determine the   particular supplier to use as benchmark .   With the supplier ’s express consent , our company adopted these   practices as subsequent process steps for those lower quality fruits coming from other suppliers in order   that all the fruits have uniform quality . 

 Insight 

 This tool effectively improved the uniformity of the quality of fruits .   From the experience of using this   tool , I was able to gain the following insights : ( 1 ) storytelling is as effective as objective approaches ; ( 2 )   storytelling gives us relevant baseline information which we can work our improvements from ; and ( 3 )   design thinking , in general , utilizes the lean six sigma approach . 

 Approach 

 I would n’t use any other tool in this scenario because the suppliers ’ postharvest processes are internal to   them , and so it is only through storytelling that they are able to share such information with people   outside their organization .
### Output: 