Supplier strategy

Phillip Townsend Associates Inc., Chemical Additives for Plastics Apparent Supplier Strategies, Houston, TX... 

Table 10.9 Apparent supplier strategies for chemical additives for plastics...

Respondent Profile Supplier Strategy section person responding Transaction section person responding... 

Supplier Strategy section Definition of an ideal supplier (see Table 11.2) Relative performance (see Table 11.2) Direction of fastener technology Cost of installing a fastener Information technology trends... 

A suppliers will often supply A SKUs. This is natural, particularly when suppliers of the A items may be limited due to the complexity of the item or its scarcity. Developing closer partnerships or pursuing vendor-managed inventory may make sense as a supplier strategy. 

The battery plant architecture rests on an assumption that the battery plant market size and durable growth (hundreds to thousands of plants) will create a sufficient demand to induce supplier strategies based on factory fabrication/rapid site installation of plant modules. Consider the range of projections cited previously in Section XXIV-1.3. In order to grow from 1 terawatt thermal (350 GW(e)) deployed today to 10 terawatt deployed in 2050, then the market potential for 400 MW(th) STAR-H2 plants starting in 2030 lies in the range of an average of 500 to 750 new plants delivered each year over the 20 years from 2030 to 2050. This potential market size could justify supplier interest. 

Supplier strategy Select based on cost and quality Select based on speed, flexibility, reliability, and quality... 

Virtual screening assists the selection of compounds for screening in-house libraries and compounds from external suppliers. Two different strategies can be applied ... 

Your quality system therefore needs to accommodate various corrective action strategies, from simple intradepartmental analysis with solutions that affect only one area, procedure, process, or product to projects that involve many departments, occasionally including suppliers and customers. Your corrective action procedures need to address these situations in order that when the time comes you are adequately equipped to respond promptly. 

Electronic marketplace/E-commerce In addition to the many databases available and person-to-person contacts, E-commerce in plastics has been conducted through suppliers web sites or the dot-commerce independent web sites that link material buyers with sellers in transactions or auction formats. During the year 2000 five plastic producers/suppliers and various elastomer producers/suppliers created a new and important business model of a joint-venture web site. It provides multiple companies to join forces to do business. This is a strategy some observers call competition and others regard as just another form of selling in. an electronic format. Regardless of how it is perceived, the model will help propel e-commerce into the mainstream of processor procurement due to the size and wealth of the companies involved. The plastic model example is the largest online business-to-business site todate. 

The strategies explored and defined in the various examples presented open a way for wider application of microwave chemistry in industry. The most important problem for chemists today (in particular, drug discovery chemists) is to scale-up microwave chemistry reactions for a large variety of synthetic reactions with minimal optimization of the procedures for scale-up. At the moment, there is a growing demand from industry to scale-up microwave-assisted chemical reactions, which is pushing the major suppliers of microwave reactors to develop new systems. In the next few years, these new systems will evolve to enable reproducible and routine kilogram-scale microwave-assisted synthesis. 

Since both the manufacturer and his suppliers are forced to work by the same strategy, each company s raw materials QC and finished product QC laboratories test only for the most obvious characteristics. An undetected change in a raw material s properties might change a product characteristic that could also go unnoticed until much later. 

In order to achieve this, a change in purchasing and development strategy will be necessary. The white goods suppliers, like 10-15 years ago the automotive industry will have to take over the responsibility to push RnD on the component... 

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