Demand management component

An important component of demand management is finding ways to reduce demand variability and improve operational flexibility. They argue that reducing demand variability aids in consistent planning and reduce costs, and that increasing flexibility helps the firm respond quickly to internal and external events. 

Based on the three demand driven components (e.g., demand management, supply and operations management and product lifecycle management) and the categories within each component, identified in the previous chapter, five level maturity model was developed to be used as the basis to perform assessment of an organization current and desired future states. 

In the summary results spreadsheet showed in the example of Fig. 6.3, the supply chain director of the country under analysis can visualize the overall score result for his operation, as well as, the score results for each one of the three components of DDSC (e.g.. Demand management, Supply and Operations management, and Product Lifecycle management). 

In the specific example provided in Fig. 6.3, the overall score for the country is 1.48, which is in the middle of a basic (level 1) to an optimized push level (level 2), and each component has the following scores Demand management (2.0), Supply Operations management (1.64) and Product Lifecycle management (1.22). 

Data management component Offline data retrieval On-demand data retrieval Data maintenance Data transformation Data sharing... 

Introduction and Commercial Application The reservoir and well behaviour under dynamic conditions are key parameters in determining what fraction of the hydrocarbons initially in place will be produced to surface over the lifetime of the field, at what rates they will be produced, and which unwanted fluids such as water are also produced. This behaviour will therefore dictate the revenue stream which the development will generate through sales of the hydrocarbons. The reservoir and well performance are linked to the surface development plan, and cannot be considered in isolation different subsurface development plans will demand different surface facilities. The prediction of reservoir and well behaviour are therefore crucial components of field development planning, as well as playing a major role in reservoir management during production. 

Caveats. Expect limited success initially. For example, payback should not be expected until after a year or two pilots will show some success in the short term. It also takes time for management and technical staff to consistently support the idea long-term, and the skills required—for generic component design and interface specification—are more demanding. 

Over the past several decades there have been increasingly strong demands in Europe and the United States that atmospheric chemistry research be directly useful in developing scientific risk assessments and public policies. For example, one component of the EUROTRAC program (European Experiment on Transport and Transformation of Environmentally Relevant Trace Constituents in the Troposphere) ...is expected to assimilate the scientific results from EUROTRAC and present them in a condensed form, together with recommendations where appropriate, so that they are suitable for use by those responsible for environmental planning and management in Europe (EUROTRAC, 1993). 

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