Krefeld, Germany

Up at 6:30. Nina drove me to the tram. In to Ehrenreich a little after 8. Wrote expense report for the Repa trip. Gordon came in a little after 9. We spent the morning talking about the Repa and BLW projects. Solved the problem with the Cost Center Summary Records for cost centers with overhead based on machine hours but still having direct labor content. We will write two summary records for these cost centers — one for the machine hours and one for the labor hours. This way Bill Stevens can break out both labor and overhead into the two factors: rate and usage variances.

We had lunch at Rheinaturn, roast beef sandwich and goulash soup, 24 marks for the entire bill.

Discussed Centralized Data Center possibility and Henry Hansen in the afternoon, and got together with Dick. Teves is not a good possibility for getting together with Ehrenreich in a centralized EDP system. Helling at Teves wouldn’t buy the idea. He can’t even get his two plants running centralized let alone talk about centralizing all of Teves with Ehrenreich. We will investigate running the Repa and BLW payroll at Ehrenreich rather than at outside service bureaus. We will try to make a good EDP manager out of Henry. First send him to a management school and then come in and make a detailed study of the EDP organization here. Then develop reporting and control systems which will force him to use his people rather than doing it all himself.

Weather was rain in the morning to partly coudy in the afternoon.

Left work a little after 5 and took the tram home. We went to Mervyn and Lynn’s for the evening. Rebekka Hansen babysat for us. Got home about 1 a.m. and in bed about 1:30.

Transcribed from my journal.