Resource commitment

Pilot-plant start-up is different from principal process plant start because of the smaller scale of the unit, smaller resources committed, lack of advance start-up planning, and limited experience with the pilot-plant process and operation. 

Since SYSCO does not itself manufacture, a quality assurance team of more than 180 professionals determines specifications for each own-brand item and also sets criteria for raw materials and for the standards that manufacturers and processors must follow for food safety, quality, and consistency, as well as for social responsibility and supplier codes of conduct. This quality assurance team identifies and establishes supply sources and audits those suppliers to enforce SYSCO s strict standards for various factors like facility conditions and sanitary measures. Inspectors are at the plants as bacon comes off the production line, or follow produce from field to cooler to assure proper holding temperatures and product integrity. SYSCO s program is unmatched in the food industry. The number of people and level of resources committed to supporting the integrity of the products are far superior to those of other industry competitors, who may devote merely a handful of personnel to these tasks, if they are undertaken at all. 

Our example uses the data from Bowman and Narayandas (2004). The customer firms are more than 300 industrial customers of firms that provide metal processing, fabrication, and distribution services. The customer firms are in industries that include manufacturing, construction, transportation, aerospace, and electrical. As a group, these customers use over sixty different vendors. A sponsoring vendor firm provided financial data and details of its efforts at the customer account level, enabling us to link vendor resource commitments to vendor performance and customer profitability. 

Should an early decision be made to develop the eutomer, then the drug development program would be the same as for conventional NCEs, with the possible exception that assessment of in vitro and/or in vivo chiral inversion may be desirable. However, if development continues with the racemate, time, cost, and staff resource commitments become magnified. For example, a very important variable to consider is spedes differences in enantiomer exposure. Appropriate toxicokinetic studies are advisable in order to assure that, at toxicological doses, the animal species tested have attained suffident plasma concentrations of each enantiomer to support clinical evaluation at therapeutic doses in humans. The enantiomeric ratio (based on maximum drug concentrations fCmax] and/or area under the plasma drug concentration-time curve [ALJC]) should be evaluated, and... 

An analysis of land commitment, water resource commitment, impact on biota and impact on human, activity has been made on the basis of the general radiation levels at the NRTS and vicinity in 1972 (14), The contribution of the WCF to the total activity at the NRTS indicates negligible environmental impact to the general public (15,17). 

A fragrance house is like a bespoke tailor, supplying client-specific products which, for multinational clients, become essentially their own. There is, however, also an off-the-peg service or fast-shelf service, where the resource commitment, pricing demand and fast turnaround of response dictate a different method of interpretation. 

A third, and perhaps the most significant, achievement was the reduction of the portfolio from 54 kinase to 38 kinase projects based on a more robust evaluation of the POS of each project and of the resource commitment required to prosecute the project. Thus, the organization conserved scarce resources and reallocated it to other priorities. 

Were adequate resources committed to the auditing program and to implementing its recommendations ... 

Resource commitment is much more than providing for a budget or the hiring of one or several people to do the work. Lawyers or regulatory people who are experts in TSCA are needed to provide input on TSCA s requirements. Alone, they are inadequate to get the program on track or to keep the program on track. Depending on how broadly TSCA cuts across a company s operations, parts of other functions also have to be tapped to be part of the... 

Indus try/Ac tivity Buyer Resource Commitment Supplier Resource Allocation... 

In this context, the buyer is the principal who pays for the work and decides how much to help the supplier. The supplier is an agent who knows specifics regarding production and his capability (which is unknown to the buyer). The set-up cost depends on the buyer s specifications, which in turn, depend on the buyer s resource commitment, x, and on the supplier s set-up capability, [Pg.66]

By 1995 over 170 international environmental treaties were in place. If accords and agreements are also counted, the number is around 800. However, the effectiveness of these in environmental preservation depends very heavily on the funding available for their implementation. Unfortunately, most of these initiatives did not reach their potential effectiveness due to lack of enabhng resource commitments. 

Public information—Processes, procedures, and systems for communicating timely, accurate, accessible information on an incident s cause, size, and cnrrent situation resources committed and other matters of general interest to the public, responders, and additional stakeholders (both directly affected and indirectly affected). 

The order-promising process employed partitions the due date time horizon into three intervals fixed product, flexible product and flexible resource. For the fixed product interval, which spans from approximately the present time to two weeks into the future, resources, in the form of manufacturing orders (MO) are fixed. An MO specifies the production quantity for each product at each assembly line in each factory. That is, a fixed production schedule is set, which takes into account both production capacity availability and critical material availability. Having a fixed schedule stabilizes production dynamics in the near term and allows for the required materials to be set up and put in place. Any order commitments made for this time interval must fit within the fixed production schedule. In the flexible product interval, two kinds of resources, capacity and material, are considered. The capacity consists of both production capacity in different factories and transportation capacity from factories to sales subsidiaries. The production capacity is given daily at factory level in terms of machine-hour and manpower availability, while the transportation capacity is specified as weekly maximum quantity from factories to sales subsidiaries. The weekly availability of individual critical materials is aggregated into finished good level availability grouped based on the bill of material (BoM). Any order commitments made for this time interval must satisfy the capacity and material availability constraints. The flexible product interval spans from approximately two weeks to two months into the future. For the flexible resource interval, which covers due dates more than two months into the future, the only constraint considered is production capacity. This interval starts beyond the resource lead times so any resource commitments can be met. 

Resource commitment of the buyer toward purchasing process is optimized. 

A corporate EHS Director persists in her efforts to justify staffing resource commitments to support process safety in spite of company cost-cutting edicts. ... 

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