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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Supply planning"”.
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A Template to Enhance Regional Water Supply Planning
Regional water supply planning can be performed in a variety of ways and the impetus behind the creation of a regional water supply plan is as diverse as the constituents the plan serves. Formal water supply planning has been occurring for the last fifty years and a review of recent literature …
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Water Supply Planning for Landscape Irrigation in Virginia
A water supply plan approach was used to investigate irrigation application on landscaped areas in Virginia with a focus on turfgrass. The economically-important turfgrass industry in Virginia should be proactive in conserving drinking water supplies to meet human consumption needs, especially in …
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An economic approach to water supply planning in southeastern Virginia
… conducted of alternative responses to the water supply situation in four cities in southeastern Virginia. Cost/benefit analyses were performed for the provision of projected levels of use and for reductions in those levels of use achieved with the use of quotas, price increases, and water saving …
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Enterprise transformation & lean implementation in a globally dispersed organization
In July 2007, the Supply Planning Organization (SPO) decided to begin its Lean journey. Through some analysis the decision was made to take a culture first approach and then follow with the use of Lean tools. The time had come to use Lean tools to help facilitate in the process of both driving …
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Performance measurement system design for supply chain organizations
… has been demonstrated by its application to a supply planning organization within a major technology manufacturing company. Specifically, the performance measurement system of this supply planning organization was redesigned using the proposed methodology and pilot-tested over the course of a …
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A Framework for Analyzing Forecast Accuracy Metrics
Demand Planning forecasts at Nike, Inc. are used by many groups: Supply Planning/Materials Planning, Sourcing, Categories/Merchandising, Finance, S&OP, and Sales. These groups take forecasts as an input to make key decisions. Forecasts, by nature, will be inaccurate. There are two big unknowns to …
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Assessing Drought Flows For Yield Estimation
Determining safe yield of an existing water supply is a basic aspect of water supply planning. Where water is withdrawn from a river directly without any storage, the withdrawal is constrained by the worst drought flow in the river. There is no flexibility for operational adjustments other than …
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Enabling cultural shifts : an enterprise approach toward lean thinking
The Supply Planning Operations team, in a large manufacturing firm, faced a future where their complexity of scope was increasing without an increase in resource levels. As an effort to improve both efficiency and effectively within the organization, they chose to adopt Lean Thinking as a method to …
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The Influence of Conservation Programs on Residential Water Demand: Synthesis and Analysis for Shared Vision Planning in the Rappahannock River Basin
… Commission is undergoing a collaborative water supply planning process for Virginia's Rappahannock River Basin. Participants in the planning process have indicated an interest in technical information about the possible impact conservation programs may have on reducing residential water demand. …
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Lean transformation of a supply chain organization
… Lean cultural shift for the organization. Supply Planning Operations (SPO) decided to begin its own Lean journey in July 2007, and the transformation is still in its infancy. As part of the journey, the leadership team is reflecting on and comparing the group's leadership and management …
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THE EFFECTS OF COLLABORATION ON THE RESILIENCE OF THE ENTERPRISE: A NETWORK-ANALYTIC APPROACH
<p>The ability to anticipate and respond to supply chain disruption has emerged as a vital organizational capability in an operational environment characterized by increasing levels of turbulence, uncertainty, and complexity. Collaborative relationships between internal functional areas as well as …
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The role of private vending in Developing country water service delivery : the case of Karachi, Pakistan
… attempts to: i) Characterize the existing water supply situation in Karachi, with particular focus on the water vending industry; ii) Evaluate the extent to which water vending in Karachi affects households' water supply situation and generates excessive profits for vendors; and iii) Assess …
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Safe Yield for Jointly Operated Reservoir System and Examination of ENSO Impacts
… of a water source is a basic aspect of water supply planning. In this report, the safe yield is defined as the maximum constant release from a reservoir that is possible during a selected drought period. The yield depends on drought magnitude and duration controlled by nature and ability to …
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Estimating Changes in Residential Water Demand for Voluntary and Mandatory Water-Use Restrictions Implemented during the 2002 Virginia Drought
… of these programs will help in water supply planning. This dissertation estimates the reductions in residential water-use for voluntary and mandatory water-use restrictions used in Virginia during the 2002 drought. These restrictions were evaluated using both a conventional approach …
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Evaluating inventory ordering policies : a methodology and application
… can distort the demand signal as it moves up the supply chain, magnifying the impact of the bullwhip effect. We define an inventory ordering policy as a set of rules that govern the process of issuing and updating a forecast of product order quantities over several periods. This forecast is …
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Space logistics network optimization with embedded propulsion technology selection
… Specifically, conventional space logistics planning methods are unable to account for the use of low-thrust vehicles for transportation due to the inherent nonlinear nature of associated costs. The aim of this work is to develop ways of handling low-thrust trajectory models within space …
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Building archetype calibration for effective urban building energy modeling
… such plans introduce a variety of efficiency and supply planning strategies ranging from the scale of buildings, to full districts. Their implementation requires information about current building energy demands, and how these demands, and the city's energy ecosystem at large, may change as a …
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Supply chain practices in the context of an emerging economy
… while Brazil and Russia would dominate in supply of raw materials. The BRIC economy today makes up about 25% of the land mass and has 40% of the world's population. As multinationals scramble to tap into these growing emerging markets, they have begun to acknowledge that supply chain …
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PROVEEAPP
De acuerdo con la entrevista realizada al presidente de ACODRES, el 80% de los restaurantes formalizados tienden a cerrar en los primeros 6 meses de operación, al administrarse principalmente por personas que buscan generar su fuente de ingreso para subsistir, a través de un emprendimiento en donde …
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The Skill Assessment of Seasonal Wind Prediction in South Africa
… is skilful could assist in efficient energy supply planning, inform plant operations such as maintenance and contribute towards the shift to a low carbon economy.