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Situation: In my last role as an operations coordinator, monthly reporting required manual Excel consolidation from 8 teams, taking 3 days and causing ~12% data errors. Task: I needed to streamline the process and reduce mistakes without adding headcount. Action: I time-tracked the steps over 2 cycles and showed we spent ~24 hours/month on low-value copy-paste work. I built a standardized template in Excel with data validation, then used Power Query to automatically pull CSV exports from our CRM and ticketing tool. I ran a 30-minute training and piloted with 3 teams first. Result: Report preparation time dropped from 3 days to 6 hours (75% faster), error rates fell from 12% to under 2%, and managers gained reports 2 days earlier, improving forecasting accuracy by ~8%.
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