Summer 2010 Dependent Internship Experience

Lindsey Dahlman

Safety Share

• Gas pump mishap

– My experience

– What to do if it happens to you

– How to avoid this

• Pay attention

Agenda

• Safety

• Cross-functional Orientations

• Projects

– Logistics’ Costs, Audits, & Contracts

– Talc Distribution – DOS/Network

– Logistics Footprint

Safety

• Travel Safety Expo

– Created and set up the display for the Logistics Department

– Topic: Travel Security

– The expo taught me about the importance safety while travelling

– Increased my awareness of how important safety is to Rio Tinto

Safety

• Expo Research

• What my research taught me:

– How to prepare yourself before you travel, and while you travel

• Before you travel:

– Research the country

– Create an itinerary of your visit, and leave a copy at home

• While you travel:

– Don’t look or act like a tourist

– Conceal your belongings so you aren’t pick pocketed

Safety

• MSHA Project

• Retrieved data from the MSHA website

– Found statistics for accident rates for our competition, and each of

their mines

– Compiled data into spreadsheet by year (1995-2010) for each

company

– This data will be used in a proposal to be made into law, regarding

Patterns of Violation for major mining companies.

Cross-functional Orientations

• Tod Diebold – Operations

• John Kinneberg – Operations

• Andrea Russell – Quality

• Lindsay Blackstone – Marketing

• Nancy Concepcion – Marketing

• Jessica Largent – Finance

Tod Diebold:

• Safety initiatives at Rio Tinto

• Boron: the background of the lockout, the Union’s influence, and the Return to

Work plan

• The importance of Logistics

John Kinneberg:

• The importance of safety, on the job and elsewhere

• Jadar developments and possibilities

Andrea Russell:

• Quality’s role and function

Cross-functional Orientations

Lindsay Blackstone:

• The Marketing department – very cross-functional

• End uses for our products

• Marketing is the middleman between R&D and Sales

Nancy Concepcion:

• Allocating products, Contract To Cash, and the Marketing side of Rio Tinto

• Always pursue your passions in life, and the rest will fall into place

Jessica Largent:

• The organization of Rio Tinto and its entities

• Her role, strategically looking at numbers and telling the story behind the

numbers.

Cross-functional Orientations

Projects

• Logistics’ Costs, Audits, & Contracts

• Talc Distribution – DOS/Network

• Logistics Footprint

Logistics’ Costs, Audits & Contracts

• Freight Invoice Audit

• 3PL Invoice Audit

• Rail Rate Contracts

Talc Distribution - DOS/ Network

• Luzenac - The Talc side of Rio

• Learned about our products and warehouse network

• Created a spreadsheet to reconstruct the way Rio Tinto reports

“Day of Supply” for each month

Logistics Footprint

• Map #1: Average Monthly Inventory 1H 2010

– The global “supply” side of demand vs. supply

• Map #2: Average Monthly Sales 2009

– The global “demand” side of demand vs.

supply

• Map #3: Physical Movements 2009

– For containers, bulk, and rail, the amount of

physical movement

Key Takeaways / Summary • Corporate atmosphere – 8 to 5

• Safety

• The quality in general of Rio Tinto as a company

• Proficiency working with Microsoft tools

• The dynamics of business, the cross-functional elements, the

cooperation between all departments

• Attended the Commercial Global Supply Demand Meeting, Logistics’

monthly Demand Supply Meeting, Contingency Update Calls, and Global

Cross-Function calls

• Seeing the quality people, facility, values and work ethic of Rio Tinto, I

now know what to look for when I get jobs in the future.

Questions