Benefits of the Program

Improvements were made in all aspects of domestic and international inbmmd and outbmmd distribution, warehousing, and finished goods order processing, including fhe following  

Discontinued manufacturing in Southern California, thereby eliminating all the expense related to planning, shipping, and storing raw materials. 

Consolidated the four Southern California warehouse and distribution facilities into one efficient centralized distribution center. 

Negotiated lower rates for inbound international containers, and emphasized the importance of using 40-foot containers at all times, thereby eliminating the non-cost-effective use of 20-foot containers. 

Negotiated lower rates for domestic and international small-pack- 

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Use of the word "efficiency" of R D programs suggests that operational assessments are being made, yet lack of a consistent measure of the outcome of R D programs that could be applied across the six case studies precludes reaching conclusions about whether the benefits of the programs studied, either individually or collectively. 

The NEMIRR system cannot and should not be the sole responsibility of the safety department. This system involves all employees at all levels and calls for total participation or else the system will fail. Buy-in from all levels must be obtained before launching the program or resistance will block all efforts to run a working system. Management at all levels, unions, union members, and employees must all see the benefit of the program and must be willing participants. Many will be skeptical and will remain so about the system until they see others participate and the system functioning effectively. 

The need for compensation will depend in part on the pattern of benefits of the program to be reformed—that is, who it reached and how important the program was to them. In the case of food subsidy reforms, the poor often receive a low share of the absolute benefits, but these low benefits are nonetheless an improvement in their welfare. Sometimes, however, the poor have benefited little from the subsidy to be reduced, for example, if electricity were subsidized but the poor were not connected to the grid. An indirect feature of the needs assessment (see chapter 9 for guidance on how to carry out a needs assessment) concerns the political economy of reform. Is there consensus on the need for reform or not Who opposes it and why Would a compensatory targeted cash transfer help make the reform more acceptable ... 

Personalizing the benefits of the new programs to each manager can be a persuasive tool. Once again, some research may help you find out which benefits are most likely to be compelling to particular managers. Some common benefits are described below ... 

Which measures you actually use will partly depend on the objectives of your integration program. You should be checking that the expected benefits of integration are being achieved. If improved efficiency was a key objective, it will be important to develop and collect measures of efficiency as early as possible. When selecting measures of efficiency, you should make sure you have baseline data from before the implementation of the integration project. If you don t have such baseline data, the full benefits of the project will never become apparent. 

A benefit of the use of accelerometers is that they do not require a calibration program to ensure accuracy. However, they are susceptible to thermal damage. If sufficient heat radiates into the piezoelectric crystal, it can be damaged or destroyed. However, thermal damage is rare since data acquisition time is relatively short (i.e. less than thirty seconds) using temporary mounting techniques. 

Finally, the value of extensive time-series records extends beyond the identification of a specific problem. Long-term time-series permits verification that decisions are effective (or not) solutions are, indeed, working (or not) and the ongoing costs and benefits of the given control program are assessed accurately. With proper design of what to measure, it can also assist in understanding the why or why not. 

The objectives of the Diavik Waste Rock Research Program are to evaluate the benefits of the proposed reclamation... 

Producing code early is good for everyone s morale. One of the benefits of the high modularity of 00 programming is that it is easy to do a sensible vertical slice of a program, try it out in isolation, and add the rest incrementally. Horizontal slices are also possible What will ultimately be a database-resident distributed system can initially be... 

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