Logistics savings

Interfacing transportation applications with an organization s other business enterprise systems has typically had a quick payback for most organizations. With annual logistics savings of 3-12% in usually less than one year, effectively implementing a TMS (Tausz 1999) for 300,000 and 1 million, as mentioned earlier, is a very economical decision. 

Figure 4. A plot of logistics savings and the margin impact shows the relative importance of different cost drivers...

In-mould assembly (IMA) of a filter housing saves assembly time and simplifies logistics. Cycle times were halved to under 30 seconds with this technology. 

The outsourcing of C and D customers, for example, allows producers to save sales, logistics, and administration costs. Furthermore, a focus on their core customers allows them to reduce their cost of complexity significantly and at the same time enhance the profitability of their overall customer portfolio. Further important added value arises from the distributor s in-depth knowledge of regional markets and ability to design tailor-made packages. As a result of their broader market access, distributors are often able to increase the sales of dedicated product lines outsourced by suppliers. New customers may be attracted and switch to products... 

Up to now, none of the presented system can claim its ability to fully replace all liver functions in an extracorporeal circuit. On the one hand, purely artificial techniques can only cover some detoxification aspects, which is already crucial in many clinical cases to save patients. On the other hand, bioartificial livers have not proven their full efficiency yet, mainly because both regulatory and logistic aspects limit, for the moment, the inclusion of significant numbers of patients to draw statistically relevant conclusions. 

The descriptive, classificatory and comparative approach to analysis of structures also depends on computing. It is no longer feasible to pursue these studies with physical models. Beyond the obvious mechanical problems, there is the logistical catastrophe the amount of space and materiel increases linearly with the number of structures to be examined. In addition, there is no way to save and restore structures. It is therefore necessary to apply computer graphics to draw representations of structures. The importance of supercomputers in studies of this kind will lie not only in the feasibility of large calculations that are rot possible at present, but in the conversion of many tasks from batch mode to interactive. 

The necessary basic knowledge is provided in Chapter 2 The Chemical Production Plant and its Components. It deals vhth important subdisciplines of technical chemistry such as catalysis, chemical reaction engineering, separation processes, hydrodynamics, materials and energy logistics, measurement and control technology, plant safety, and materials selection. Thus, it acts as a concise textbook vhthin the book that saves the reader from consulting other works when such information is required. A comprehensive appendix (mathematical formulas, conversion factors, thermodynamic data, material data, regulations, etc.) is also provided. 

The retil potential of transportation management systems (TMS), beyond operational efficiencies, is the substemtial cost savings that it is capable of generating for shippers. Recognizing the enormous logistics costs that are transportation related, transportation management is as complex and difficult as any other problem associated with an organization s business environment. 

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