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Throughout our time in Kenya, we have had the pleasure of staying in a variety of accommodations. Our travels took us north to Marsabit, west to the Maasai Mara, and east to Zanzibar, Tanzania, but our home base was the Partners for Care headquarters in Nairobi. Initially compared to the White House in terms of security and luxury (ahem, Kurt), the PFC house has become our home away from home as we made our way around Kenya. But getting in is not easy….
And the day finally dawned- the day we headed for our African Safari. Our first team consensus was that we would go on an African Safari. Most of us hadn’t been on a wildlife Safari before and were super excited! Ryan, our social chair did a fair bit of research and reached out to a few travel companies and received quotes. We eventually landed a very good deal - a three-day safari to Masai Mara from May 19 through 21 at a very cheap rate!
For seven weeks of Strategy class, all we heard about was how we should appreciate the case exhibits and how difficult good, clean data would be to get in the real world. Well, the real world done slapped us the face. Our project is to find real, total, landed costs of parts in a global supply chain, and compare them to quotes received from suppliers based in China.
After an eventful weekend, we started the week with a number of business and informational meetings. It was so interesting to see the differences between the American and the Kenyan corporate worlds! Our first visit brought us to downtown Nairobi. The trip itself was an experience. The drive took us through the lower part of the city, which was loud, busy, and extremely chaotic.
After 7 weeks of preparation and planning, we are so excited to have finally arrived on site at CVG Northampton in the United Kingdom. A few first day highlights included: A facility tour (including the KAB seat assembly plant where CVG assembles seating equipment for industrial trucking companies), and a kickoff meet and greet with the KAB purchasing team.