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The Advisory Consultant Program : Technology Advisory Program

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EY Advisory Consultant Program: Technology Advisory Program Internship Technical Report
Intro
Ernst & Young (EY) is a professional services firm headquartered in London. The main service lines of EY include Assurance, Tax Advisory, Consulting, and Financial Advisory. This summer, I interned at their San Francisco Office under the National Advisory Services program (i.e. Consulting). Essentially, the work involved consulting services to clients. To be more specific, consulting involves improving efficiency which is what Industrial and Systems Engineering is all about – consulting work is generally improving existing systems, overhauling outdated methods/processes, and innovating new solutions to solve a problem or improve certain aspects. …show more content…

Though, I was able to apply some of the concrete concepts, I found exercising the logical engineering thought process of breaking down problems and carefully synthesizing information to be very helpful and exhilarating. For example, a lot of the problems I encountered at work were very abstract and difficult to approach; but, I was able to solve these problems using the industrial engineering thought process by defining the problem, segmenting it, breaking it down, focusing on logical and feasible concrete steps, synthesizing all of this information, and finally executing and implementing this process. The next section provides this in more detail with the type of work that was explored by me during the internship.
Work Value
Some background information regarding work entailed: Since there was a strict confidentiality agreement with EY and their client (please refer to the EY Code of Conduct and EY Privacy Statement), I am not able to provide the exact details and project information that I worked on. As such, I will have to edit some of the details and write about very similar procurement/sourcing problems instead; though, the nature and type of engineering work and the work value is strictly preserved. In general, my work essentially entailed improving and streamlining a company’s procurement/sourcing process who struggled with high costs (both time and money). Detailed below are steps that I have explored using Industrial and Systems concepts and

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