Resource planning

Technology managers should include the following elements in the plan itself the critical business issues the nature of markets and customers the thmsts of traditional and potential competitors the human resource issues, ie, the skills and abiUties needed to carry out the plan alternatives and contingencies to support the plan a patent and intellectual property strategy and the supporting faciUties and resource plan. The most frequentiy overlooked elements are human resource issues and patent strategies (50). 

The long-term scheduling is basically a material resources planning (MRP) activity involving the following ... 

FIGURE 5-10. Staff Resources Plan for Develop PHA Process ... 

The resource plan will be developed from the combination of the skills requirements and the task network. You may find a mismatch between your staffing needs and staff availability. When this happens you should consider ... 

The activity of ecologists in resource planning has three forms preservation, integration and conservation. 

These are software packages that can be configured according to users needs, e.g. enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Full life cycle validation is required. 

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The big players in the chemical industry have developed very powerful company-specific ERP systems (enterprise resource planning earlier this type of system was denoted as production planning and control) since the 1960s. The growing costs to maintain and adapt these systems have motivated the move to integrated standard business software systems in the last decade. The majority of the big chemical companies use SAP R/3 resp. SAP ERP from SAP AG other well-known solution vendors include Marcam (now part of Infor) and JD Edwards (now part of PeopleSoft resp. Oracle). 

This feature establishes the expectation that chemical industrial facilities should, through their annual capital, operations, maintenance, and staff resources plans, identify and set aside resources consistent with their specific identified security needs. Security priorities should be clearly documented and should be reviewed with utility executives at least once per year as part of the traditional budgeting process. 

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