Customer demand

The sale of fresh cream as a table item for serving has decreased greatiy siace the 1970s, primarily as a result of changing customer demand based on diet. A variety of cream and fat substitutes are available for spreads, toppiags, whiteners, and cooking (see Dairy substitutes). 

Don t constrain yourself to purchase only from approved suppliers unless your customer demands otherwise - compensate for poor performers through subcontractor/supplier controls. 

Advancement in tire technology is expected to continue, to take advantage of emerging technologies, to meet further customer demands, and to accommodate new applications. Different tires will be introduced in the front and rear positions of automobiles as a result of the different loadings. Unsymmetrical tread designs will have different patterns on the outer and inner halves... 

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. 

Globalization creates a need to source complex products with a high degree of consistency across the world [291], This, in turn, demands a well-defined and transferable process technology. A massive, local customization requires product availability in great variety close to the customer, demanding process intensification, modular operations, transportable plant, and fast response and product changeover. Multifunctionality demands a wider space in formulations and a chemistry set to deliver dial-in fimctionality , which needs assembly from a consistent set of basic materials. 

Since the early 1970 s there has been a growing belief that chemical measurements must not only be done correctly, but that data, the product of the measurement process, must be seen to be accurate, precise, and reliable. Analytical data have become another manufactured product and like all manufactured products, the customers demand that Quality Assurance (QA) must be built in. 

There is still a large volume of unfulfilled customer demand. .. we do not serve any purpose by unnecessarily competing amongst ourselves to try to fulfil it. A structured approach is needed. ... 

Even in the absence of formal binding international implementation mechanisms for the Kyoto accord, we are seeing many businesses begin to factor greenhouse gas emission considerations into their business plans. It has simply become a good business decision and it serves customer demand. This is a profoundly important development, and nuclear power is uniquely positioned to play in this game. 

Oily fishmeal is allowed in organic rations and it has an even higher essential amino acid content than full-fat soya. However, its use in poultry rations is limited partly by cost, restrictions on the source of the fishmeal imposed by organic standards, the fact that some customers demand birds that are fed on a vegetable-based diet and concerns about fishy taints to the product (Walker and Gordon, 2001). 

My problem was that the company now expected me to somehow validate the efficiency curves. They were perhaps overly sensitive about possible legal complications, such as, if the customer demands to see a working board to reaffirm the datasheet, and there happens to be none. Quite like stock options with no dates to back them up. 

The EPS-production is driven by customer demands. The scheduling problem exhibits the following degrees of freedom, which may be discrete or continuous in... 

The strong global competition has been increasing the pressure to an efficient operation of chemical batch plants. Flexible batch plants are used to react quickly to changes in customers demands. The variations in the demands as well as, e.g., the prices of raw materials, or the yields ofthe production process are not exactly known at the time of scheduling. When these uncertainties are not sufficiently considered in the scheduling, the operations will lead to lower profits or even losses. 

The maximum refinery production rates and minimum customer demand rates are fixed and known to be as follows ... 

In this context, value chain planning is the integration of volume and value decisions based on the value chain strategy transforming the company into a marketplace clearing supplier offers in procurement with customer demand in sales... 

Sales volumes vary driven by changing demand, but the company also has a certain flexibility to cut or push sales quantities compared to customer demand, for example if customer demand exceeds available company supply. 

The spot demand elasticity analysis algorithm has also been analyzed and presented in the sales model (see table 24). Two products in two sales locations with a significant number of customers are analyzed with respect to spot sales elasticity customer demands are ranked by price and the price-quantity function of cumulated spot sales quantities. The average price is determined over 12 periods. Fig. 83 shows the results of the elasticity analysis. 

For some time now plasticisers, especially phthalates, have been under pressure from environmentalists and regulatory bodies. In the regulatory arena there is the RCRAand CERCL A requirements of the EPA, Proposition 65 in California and the EU labelling requirements of chemicals. Taking this into account, as well as customer demand for alternative plasticisers, BASF has undertaken a project to develop a plasticiser suitable in a wide range of applications and which would meet the following... 

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