Case studies implementation plan

Developed frameworks are applied to the specific industry problem to monthly plan a global chemical commodity value chain by volumes and values. Sub-objectives are to elaborate characteristics and planning requirements for a global commodity value chain in the chemical industry and to develop, implement and evaluate the respective model. Research question 2 is directed to a real industry case study demonstrating the real existence of formulated requirements, showing the applicability of the developed model in reality and evaluating the model using industry data. 

Model implementation and case study evaluation need to prove that the model supports value chain planning decisions towards global optima that the model is applicable in practice based in industry case data and that solution times are acceptable for application in the global monthly planning process. 

Three model areas can be distinguished. Model areas allow defining separated areas in the value chain network to be optimized separately. Model areas can be defined by clustered resources and/or products that have clear interfaces. Defining model area eases the implementation of a comprehensive value chain planning optimization model for a complex value chain network the optimization model can be tested for parts of the value chain network with limited data complexity before extending the model to the entire network. Three model areas are defined in the industry case study ... 

The case study demonstrated how the company can use the developed model in decision support. Having implementing the global value chain planning process and model the company could significantly improve overall profitability of the business. Specifically, the spot price mechanism used to better coordinate sales and supply decisions showed a significant impact for the company. 

Demonstrating that manufacturing companies can benefit from a well planned and implemented waste minimisation programme is the experience of Merck Ltd, one of the programme s first case studies (GC16), at its chemical reagents manufacturing site and offices. 

Case studies 2 and 6 that had the most highly developed OHS MS infrastructure also had extremely high levels ofresidual risk associated with the physical workplace. In both these cases plans for treating the risk at the root cause by replacing obsolete equipment or processes were in hand, but dates for implementation of the improvement projects were often significantly delayed or indefinitely on hold . The ethics of such decisions may need to be carefully scrutinized, especially where imnecessary delays or a lack of commitment to the improvement process is apparent. 

Launched as a rratiortal safety improvemerrt irritiative by the National Patient Safety Agency in 2009, the wide variation in approaches to its implementation provide a good case study about how safety crrltures vary across different hospitals. Implementation approaches for the WHO Srrrgical Safety Checklist have ranged from the please use this checklist in yorrr operating theatre from next Monday to, at the other end of the spectrurrr, well designed implemerrtation plans (Box 7.3). 

Some readers may view fhese few chapfers as "reruns" that describe programs such as TQM. Indeed, the TQM philosophy and tool set are relevant to implementing supply chain change. We noted in Chapter 7 that our case-study company. Acme, had only begun its journey to supply chain improvement with the development of necessary fasks. Too many organizations make excellent plans but fail in execution. So we give fhe subject of implementation its due here. 

Levi, F., Melo, P., Lucena, U. Accessibility Implementation Planning for Large Governmental Websites a Case Study. In Proceedings of the 4th Latin American Web Congress, Cholula, Mexico, pp. 113-118 (2006)... 

Finally, this case study raises questions about the suitability of foreign health policy and production models to the African context. If Brazil s original plan was to help Mozambique to replicate its own domestic experience in the AIDS fight and in pharmaceutical production, the implementation of this factory project exposed Brazil s limited familiarity with the development cooperation conundrum, but also the relevance of the differences between the two contexts (Russo et al., 2014). If some of the holdups in the project could be attributed to the relative lack of experience of Brazilian civil servants borrowed from their domestic duties to implement a cooperation project in the African continent, this case study probably shows that solutions that have proved effective elsewhere are hard to replicate in Mozambique for more than just one reason. 

This chapter differentiates itself from the reported studies in the literature through the following contributions (1) detailed kinetic model that accounts for coke generation and catalyst deactivation (2) complete implementation of a recontactor and primary product fractionation (3) feed lumping from limited feed information (4) detailed procedure for kinetic model calibration (5) industrially relevant case studies that highlight the effects of changes in key process variables and (6) application of the model to refinery-wide production planning. 

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