Potential benefits

The immediate benefit to a supplier engaged in VMI is access to data on  

The assumption is that the supplier can use these data to provide better control of the supply chain and so deliver benefits for both the customer and themselves. 

Having the suppfier take the decision on replenishment aims to minimise the impact of demand amplification. This critical problem erodes customer service, loses sales, and increases costs. The ability to dampen demand amplification caused by infrequent, large orders from customers is key to the success of VMl. The smplus capacity and excess finished goods held by suppliers to counteract such variation can then be reduced. 

In the longer term, suppliers should integrate demand information into their organisation and develop the capability to drive production with it. This helps to replace the traditional push scheduling, based on forecasts and buffer stocks, with pull scheduling, based on meeting known demand instantaneously out of manufacturing. 

There are a number of different ways in which the use of VMl can benefit the supplier and the customer. Make a list of those benefits you think exist under the headings of supplier benefits and customer benefits.  

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The increased exposure to the reservo/r results from the long horizontal sections which can be attained (between 500m and 1000m horizontal section is now common). Because the productivity index is a function of the length of reservoir drained by a well, horizontal wells can give higher productivities in laterally extensive reservoirs. As an initial estimate of the potential benefit of horizontal wells, one can use a rough rule of thumb, the... 

The PIF estimate is only a qualitative check on the potential benefit of a horizontal well. There is actually a diminishing return of production rate on the length of well drilled, due to increasing friction pressure drops with increasing well length, shown schematically in Figure 9.6. 

Another commercially available retarder for sulfur vulcanization is based on an aromatic sulfenamide. Like CTP, this product is most effective ki sulfenamide cure systems, but it also works well ki thiazole systems. Performance properties are generally not affected except for a slight modulus kicrease. In some cases this feature allows for the use of lower levels of accelerator to achieve the desked modulus with the added potential benefits of further scorch delay and lower cost cure system (23). 

Management apathy. Many managers capable of making decisions to begin pollution-prevention activities, do not realize the potential benefits of pollution prevention. 

The potential benefits of using CA in the early stages of the product development process have been found to be ... 

The use of CA has proved to be beneficial for companies introducing a new product, when an opportunity exists to use new processes/technologies or when design rules are not widely known. Design conformance problems can be systematically addressed, with potential benefits, including reduced failure costs, shorter product development times and improved supplier dialogue. A number of detailed case studies are used to demonstrate its application at many different levels. 

Other methods which should be mentioned because they show potential benefits for pollution reduction from utility stacks include (1) coal cleaning... 

APAOs has limited their utility in a number of applications. The broad MWD produces poor machining and spraying, and the low cohesive strength causes bond failures at temperatures well below the softening point when minimal stress is applied. To address these deficiencies, metallocene-polymerized materials have been developed [17,18]. These materials have much narrower MWDs than Ziegler-Natta polymerized materials and a more uniform comonomer distribution (see Table 3). Materials available commercially to date are better suited to compete with conventional EVA and EnBA polymers, against which their potential benefits have yet to be realized in practice. 

A collection of databases of chemicals and of functional groups which rank chemicals and groups relative to their reactivity, stability, toxicity, and flammability categories. This would assist in the evaluation of the potential benefits of substituting one, somewhat safer, chemical for another. 

The major benefits that arise from the application of human factors principles to process operations are improved safety and reduced down time. In addition, the elimination of error has substantial potential benefits for both quality and productivity. There is now a considerable interest in applying quality management approaches in the CPI. Many of the major quality experts em-... 

Despite these potential benefits, there are possible problems associated with the use of generic safety audit systems. Questions that need to be considered in the case of such standardized audits include ... 

Make Sure to Cover All Potential Benefits and Concerns... 

Following the assessment of existing systems, you will have been able to update your projection of the potential benefits. For example ... 

Focus the benchmarking efforts on areas where current practices are weak, and on areas where additional information is needed on the potential benefits of integration. 

The charts below describe the process that the VP, ESH followed to determine the potential benefits, outline the integration plan and implement it. The process is also illustrated through examples in the specific area of documentation systems, which was just one of the many areas that were being integrated at the same time. 

Exhibit 10-1. Potential Benefits of Integrating ESH Documentation Systems... 

The expenditure, and potential savings estimated by the UK Committee on Corrosion for a variety of industries are shown in Table 9.1. The savings shown are those which could be made by better use of available knowledge, and do not include the potential benefit of future research and development. The costs referred to are mainly those arising in the industries concerned, or, in certain cases, sustained by users of the products because of the need for protection, maintenance and replacement of the materials of construction. In the oil and chemical industries the costs of using corrosion resistant... 

Contain potential benefits for men in protection against age-related bone loss and increases in cholesterol levels, without displaying estrogenic proliferative effects in the prostate... 

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