Capable-to-promise

Finally, an interesting trend in supply-chain management is improving business practices by providing capabilities to improve service for customers. One such concept is capability to promise. The idea is not just to ensure that the product is available, but that the supply chain is capable of delivering the product. This involves, for instance, capability to rapidly change the schedule to accommodate the customer order and interact with the active plant schedule. Such a system was developed at Celanese Fibers, which is integrated with a Customer Order System and enabled via a Web browser. 

The third component of APS is order promising, which lies at the center of the transaction-based aspect of APS systems. This component is designed to suggest realistic promise dates for customer orders. The process, sometimes referred to as capable-to-promise (CTP), involves testing the customer s request date for feasibility and, if the date cannot be met, calculating the earliest date that it can be met. This is done based on available and projected inventory and available resource capacity. 

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CTP Capable to Promise. The ability to commit to orders with available capacity and inventory. (Adapted from APICS Dictionary, 10th edition )... 

In recent years, leadtime quoting has been addressed in commercial applications under the heading of available to promise (ATP) and capable to promise... 

In this way, queries that are to be studied for their feasibility can be answered reliably in a short period of time. Our "Capable to Promise" function (CTP) not only looks at the inventory of finished products, but also for free resources in the process for each order you have labeled as a serious potential order. 

Silica-based materials obtained by the sol-gel process are perhaps the most promising class of functional materials capable to meet such a grand objective. In the sol-gel process liquid precursors such as silicon alkoxides are mixed and transformed into silica via hydrolytic polycondensation at room temperature. Called soft chemitry or chimie douce, this approach to the synthesis of glasses at room temperature and pressure and in biocompatible conditions (water, neutral pH) has been pioneered by Livage and Rouxel in the 1970s, and further developed by Sanchez, Avnir, Brinker and Ozin. 

Phosphorus-31 MRS is continuing to advance and see wider application. The capability to perform P MRS on both clinical and high-held animal scanners is steadily becoming more widespread. Advances such as high magnetic fields and improved RF hardware, data-acquisition approaches, spectrum analysis automation, and pulse sequences promise a technique of increased speed and spectral and spatial resolution, with a widening range of potential applicahons. 

The high performance capabilities of FTMS, combined with the ability to manipulate trapped ions, makes the FTMS an extremely versatile and powerful tool. The future promises to bring even greater capabilities to this relatively new technique. More applications of FTMS to diverse fields will be seen, as well as the maturation of FTMS into a routine analytical technique. 

The activation of allenes is a rather new, but particularly promising area of gold catalysis.381,400 The first example for such a transformation is the cycloisomerization of allenic ketones 480 to furans 482 which probably occurs via intermediate 481 (Scheme 147). Hashmi et /.401,401a showed that this reaction proceeds much faster when gold(m) chloride in acetonitrile is employed as the precatalyst instead of the traditionally used silver salts (cf. Section 9.12.3.2). The products are usually contaminated by substituted furans originating from a Michael addition of aurated 482 to the substrates 480, thereby indicating that the gold catalyst is also capable to activate C-H bonds of furans. 

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