Arbaz Malik summarizes his experience as an intern at Shaw Industries working in the Production Planning department. He worked on tasks cleaning up bad data to help integrate yarn and carpet planning, which could save the company $47 million annually by reducing inventory and increasing flexibility. Through building Tableau apps and Google sheets, he helped data stewards identify and correct errors. This will allow the overall supply chain management software to run more efficiently. Arbaz gained valuable technical skills in SQL, databases, and data visualization tools, as well as soft skills like communication and leadership through networking with different teams across the company. He is proud of the impact of his work and learning experience at Shaw Industries.

1. My Shaw experience
By: Arbaz Malik

2. About me
School: Georgia Tech
Major: Business - Operations and Supply
Chain Management, Class of 2020
Term: 1st
Plant: 54, Supervisor: Mrs. Lin Stokes,
Department: Production Planning

3. Production
Planning’s
overall
project
Soft surface integrated
planning (SSIP)
Will use OMP to
integrate yarn & carpet
planning
Overall cost savings: $47 million
Reduce yarn inventory by 244 million pounds
Increase inventory turnover
Become flexible and agile React & adapt to market
change quicker

4. My tasks ( 1st term)
• Task 1: Greige good rule 7
• Task 2: Greige good rule 6
• Task 3: Yarn to Carpet rule 2-1 & 2-2
• Task 4: List & verify inputs and outputs for a yarn product
• Task 5: List & verify coproducts created during the yarn manufacturing
process for a yarn product

5. Task 1 & 2
Given initial SQL queryQuery
Join columns from different databasesJoin
query into Tableau appInsert
App to data stewardsPresent
query based on feedbackAdjust
Tableau app into productionUpload

6. Task 3
Task 3 was like Task 1 & 2
• Continuously receive
feedback from data
stewards on what data
they need and make
necessary changes.
• Apps allowed me to
facilitate meetings with
yarn & carpet directors,
as well as passionate /
awesome data stewards.
• Each week I would look
forward to Shaw’s data
becoming cleaner –
greige good by greige
good.

7. Task 4
• Verified input / output weight for
yarn products
• Built Tableau app to filter for
different yarn and carpet teams, as
well as for residential and
commercial
• Created Google sheets for each
team; Helped us know which
weights were verified and which
weights were incorrect

8. How my tasks affected the business
• Helped clean up bad data that would be used in final OMP software
• Tableau apps published and made available to data stewards so they could easily visualize
their next steps in order to clean bad data.
• Final software would affect sales as well as manufacturing
• If data was bad, it could lead to more waste(wrong orders), more inventory, and
lose our competitive advantage against our competition(lower prices for carpet).
Shaw would have less $$ to innovate.
• Current bad data makes the software take entire weekend
• If bad data removed, the system could create a plan quicker, reducing wasted time.

9. Technical Skills
SQL
Database design
Tableau
Google sheets / Excel
SoftSkills
Communication
Leadership
Public Speaking(toastmasters)
Diplomacy & Tact
Unconscius Bias

10. Job Shadows / Info sessions
• Lindsay Huckaby – Department Manager (Heatset),
Plant D7
• David Klein – Business Solutions (Manuf), Plant 54
• Jon Hundley / Grayson S. (Samples), Plant 52
• Ben Justus (SCDP), Plant
• Allan Boyd (Data Steward), Plant WD
• Bryan Riordan (Co-op), Plant 72

11. Favorite part 1st term
• The people at Shaw
• True southern hospitality
• Made me want to come to work each day. Kindness that I missed living
in Atlanta.
• Planners at plant 54
• Bill D, Matt B, Jeff C, Stan L
• Bus. Sol. Team
• David K, Vanessa L, Matt R, Joel L, Grace A, Matt J, Kim S, Pete
• Toastmasters family
• My amazing team
• Mrs. Lin Stokes – I can confidently say I’ve learned and grown a lot and
have made a positive impact at Shaw

12. Biggest Obstacle
• Taking feedback personally
• Asking too many questions
• Finding the right balance between working &
networking
• Managing time once task completed

13. Proudest Accomplishment
Pushing the boundary
• Innovation day
• Once primary tasks complete, I could use Friday’s to learn
new skills, different parts of the company, job shadow
• Networking beyond my team
• Building team rapport
• Monthly team lunches
• Continuous learning
• Learned about Splunk, MDM, QlikView, Glink, etc.

14. Conclusion
I’ve worked on an
impactful project that
could save $47 million
once complete.
Talk about a resume booster!
I’ve learned technical
and soft skills that are
valuable in today’s
workplace
I’ve built
relationships that may
go beyond my time
here at Shaw.
I’ve seen innovation,
Diversity & inclusion
efforts that I’ve only
read about in
textbooks.
I can now tell you
how carpet is made.