Controlled Materials Plan

One of the basic types of controls exercised over the nation s industry during the Korean action was the Controlled Materials Plan (CMP). Under CMP, steel, copper, and aluminum were allocated to industry. The Chemical Division was responsible for allocating these basic materials to manufacturers of 16 groups of chemical products such as paint, catalysts, and plastics. On July 1, 1953, CMP was replaced by the Defense Materials System (DMS). 

The Controlled Materials Plan was a far more orderly and equitable system than any that had preceded it. In the CWS the system worked extremely well, partly because the list of chemical warfare items was smaller than that of the other technical services, and partly because the CWS had already compiled accurate bills of materials. The CMP enabled... 

For details see (1) Smith, The Army and Economic Mobilization, ch. XXV and (2) Qvilian Production Administration, Industrial Mobilization for War, vol. I, pt, IV, ch. VI. H. Duncan Hall, in "History of the Second World Wat," Horth American Supply, p. 386, note 1 (Longmans Green Co., 1955), states that the U.S. Controlled Materials Plan was patterned after the British system. 

Classified Message, incoming Chemical Chemical Corps Chemical Officer Controlled Materials Plan Committee on Medical Research CWS symbol for chloroacetophcnone, a tear s CWS symbol for a solution of CN in carbon tetrachloride and benzene, a tear gas... 

The participants The range of participants should, whenever possible, be chosen in such a manner that widely different methods (based on different physical or chemical principles) can be used. The number of participants (recommended 15) should be sufficient to allow meaningful statistical processing of the results. When the laboratories feel the need for a CRM, either because the available calibrants are not comparable and a primary calibrant appears necessary for traceability, or because a reliable certified control material is needed but not available, then it is recommended that these laboratories do not plan a certification project entirely on their own, but that they involve laboratories having a background in traceability. 

Thus MFA, KFA and WFA form a practical, scientific and technically correct basis for material planning, ecological and economic decision and control systems for increasing resource utilization productivity and improving ecological and economic efficiency. 

Preventive/predictive maintenance Continuous reliability improvement Reliability-centered maintenance Maintenance parts/materials control Maintenance storeroom operations Work order and work control Maintenance planning/scheduling Maintenance budget and cost control... 

If transition efforts can be expressed in terms of costs, the total costs for pipeline transport can be used as the planning objective. In this context, total costs comprise transition costs, transport costs, and inventory costs. Transport costs account for operational pipeline costs, such as the energy costs for pumping. These costs are affected by the pipeline s pump rate which needs to be explicitly controlled and planned when the transported materials differ in viscosity or other physical properties. Inventory costs are... 

Plastics Materials Technology Mould Making Design Quality Control Production Planning Control Project Work... 

Inventory Management Stocks are used to compensate varying customer demands and to be less dependent of the suppliers compliance with delivery dates. The task of inventory management within the PPG includes inventory planning, inventory analysis, warehouse administration, inventory control, batch management, and the determination of material planning parameters and strategies. 

Review of Volume and Layout Decisions Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems Influence of Supply Chain on Demand Management Detailed Material Planning Detailed Capacity Planning Just-in-Time (JIT)... 

For instance, nowadays there is still little attention given to the automated data flow of planning and control information, or promoting the business need to the seamless flow of scheduling, resource, materials, and cost information between firms. For practitioners in these industrial environments, time and material planning is very often done in a manual process at the construction site on a stand-alone basis, mosfly assisted by data received by phone calls or on paper. 

Apart from the SCM, there is no separate production planning, manufacturing control and material planning. 

Materials planning and control has no other alternative than to order inventory as if there were no major procurement problems for individual components or capacity bottlenecks in production. These assumptions, however, are entirely unrealistic without forward harmonization. 

A sales plan, diligently prepared by sales, is generally needed for material planning and controlling the performance process in series production. This sales plan focuses on the products that sales proposes to sell in the future. 

A brief history of lab safety education since 1986 at the University of California, San Diego is presented along with the rationale for, and content of the various forms this education has taken. The use of electronic media in regulatory compliance includes environment, health and safety training, chemical inventory control, material safety data sheet repository and chemical hygiene plan documentation. A summary of present efforts and future goals is included. 

The compilation of up-to-date bills of material was one of the most significant procurement developments of the war, for these bills enabled the service to determine the precise quantity of raw materials needed and where and how it was being used. The CWS could refer to them to iron out discrepancies between its figures and those submitted by contractors. The bills also aided in forecasting production more accurately since gross critical materials requirements could be exactly computed for scheduled delivery they furnished data later required by the War Production Board and the Army Service Forces under the Controlled Matmals Plan. 

The vertical dotted line which separates D-time from P-D time in Figure 5.3 is the customer order decoupling point (CODP). This divides the point to which a focal firm carries out processes to known customer orders from the processes it has to carry out speculatively. We return to the importance of the CODP in terms of planning and controlling materials in the next chapter. 

The supply chain game plan addresses the challenges of planning and controlling material flow and information flow within the focal firm, between supply partners and across the supply chain as a whole. 

The above description of the flow of goods in a supply chain is characteristic of a pull system. Parts are pulled through the chain in response to demand from the end-customer. This contrasts with a push system, in which products are made whenever resources (people, material and machines) become available in response to a central plan or schedule. The two systems of controlling materials can be distinguished as follows ... 

Use of Results. Sales analysis data are used ia many ways by company management. The results are most useful ia production planning, particularly if grade differences appear to be ia the offing, and ia assuting that adequate suppHes are available for sales. Inventory control, raw material procurement, technical service requirements, and trends ia accounts receivable are beneficiaries of good sales analyses. 

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