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Specifications and Standards. Typical properties of pyromeUitic acid are given in Table 38 (154,155). In many cases, specifications are negotiated between manufacturer and customer based on the needs of the final product. 

Wlieli initially adopted, TOU rates were based on projections of future costs by season, month, day, or hour. However, advances in metering and communications technology now afford utilities the ability to transmit prices to customers based on actual operating costs and to read meters in real time. This realtime TOU pricing is one of the most important aspects of many of the restructuring efforts to date. They can provide customers with direct access to the prices arising in competitive electric markets. 

Enticements to involve the retail customer base, as well as the industrial sector, in the solutions desired became popular. Interruption of large commercial load, a provision by contract, had long been used to offset capacity shortages. Interest in this method mounted. In addition, retail customers were provided enticements to cut load, either by manual participation or by automatic devices. These enticements will like continue into the future. 

Mr. Adams s company, with thirty restaurants coast to coast and a customer base of four million people, sells two million cocktails a year. New drinks are tested for four to six weeks in San Francisco and other cities, in groups of fifteen to twenty cocktails with a theme like herbs. 

As a result of the high costs of technical services, most water treatment vendors employ a variety of methods that allows them to charge an economic rate for the programs they sell. They will negotiate a price with the customer based on providing the most suitable balance of on-site service time and chemical/equipment requirements, that anticipates and resolves problems, meets the customers needs, and relieves his or her pain. ... 

Ericsson is the world s leading supplier of telecommunications with the largest customer base, including the world s top ten operators. Four out of every ten mobile calls are handled by Ericsson equipment. The company has been in business since 1876 and now operates in more than 140 countries, employing 100,000 people. Ericsson is split into five business divisions one of these is known as the Consumer Products Division and presents the focus of this case study. 

This leads us to the realm of disruptive technologies. Christensen [8] presents the innovator s dilemma, where the large company focused on meeting current customer demand on a large scale ignores the disruptive opportunity because it looks like too small a market to make a difference on the balance sheet. Further, the opportunity is ignored because it does not fit in the current business model or address the needs of the current customer base. 

The retrospective implementation in machines already in use means that new process developments can be introduced much more quickly to many more machines and hence to a larger customer base, e.g. for a new special detergent. Until now, market penetration of new technology depended on the purchase of new machines, which slowed down the process considerably, given the long lifespan of modern washing machines. 

The two processors are delivering the product via pipes into one of several tanks in a tank farm. Each tank has parameters such as capacity or cleaning time. From the tanks the product is either delivered to processes on site (captive use) or to customers based on given customer orders. Additionally, it may be stored in two external buffers. In that case there are transportation moves from the tank farm to one of the external buffers (in case of over-production) or from the external buffer to the tank farm (in case of shortages in production) induced. 

It is important to keep in mind that demands occur on the time line. If a reasonable minimal time interval is chosen, it is in many cases justified to consider the demands in these intervals as independent and identically distributed random variables. This means for example that the demand per week is the iterated convolution of the daily demand. A large customer base is a good indicator of independent random demand in different time intervals. 

Let us now look into two examples to get an impression of a compound demand. We will look at compound Poisson distributions. Poisson distributions describe the random number of independent events per period, for example the number of customers with nonzero demands in a certain week from a large customer base. 

Driven since ancient times by folk beliefs, religious teachings, and social customs based on differences in physical appearance of various geographic populations, by the eighteenth century race became the subject of formal theoretical speculation and scientific investigation (Levi-Strauss, 1951 Smedley,... 

Determine the minimum sum of transportation costs and fixed costs associated with two plants and two customers based on the following data ... 

But decent support tools provide for a hypertext structure. Importing means that the points of reference in the original text can be referred to from the importer s text and, in the context of renaming (see Section 7.7.1), the resultant imported text can actually be customized based on the importer s text and names. 

Track purchasing trend of different products for each customer based on different indicators... 

We have recently added unique urban formats on both coasts of North America. We opened two stores in Manhattan and a successful urban store in Park Royal, Vancouver. Virtually everything about these stores from their design and layouts to their merchandising selection and use of technology was specifically designed to meet the needs of their local communities and provide us access to an almost entirely new and untapped customer base. These stores demonstrate another opportunity for new store growth by bringing The Home Depot to previously underserved markets. 

The building of the SUS system gave SYSCO the ability to mine data on customers and use that data to provide better service, while using its resources more efficiently. With the new data that were available, it was able to stratify its customer base and determine which customers were the most profitable. 

Such difficulties and problems, which are arguably inherent in an industry selling chemicals that even (and especially) their customers claim to be hazardous, do not decrease the sales pressures of applicators, but instead increase them. Despite the growth in the number of lawns nationally, with a more difficult-to-maintain customer base, more resources must be dedicated to increasing communication, advertising, and sales, to redirect consumer attention from chemical risks. 

Finally, at launch and beyond, plans need to be in place for journal advertising and detailing of the product to doctors by sales representatives. As noted above, the customer base of pharmaceuticals is complex and the needs of individual customers differ. For GPs and specialists, information about the product will be via advertising, representative detailing and mailings. For NHS staff such as those working in Health Authorities or within PCOs, the information will need to be more focused on cost effectiveness and service provision. For practice nurses, the emphasis will be on educational materials and practical aspects of the product s use. Disease awareness programmes for patients will be developed where appropriate. 

For quantitative data, see Table 8.1. In the market, considerable risk exists because of the structure of the customer base, primarily the pharmaceutical industry ... 

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