Supply performance attributes

The right side of the matrix contains customer perceptions of industry and Acme performance. An I indicates fastener industry performance an A is Acme s. Unit purchase price and Lead-time are second and third on customer lists. But Acme lags in both performance attributes. On the other hand, Acme excels in lower-ranked technology categories. This mirrors Acme s slowness in changing in the face of the tight supply environment for fasteners. 

Product specifications are written descriptions or briefs that state the properties of materials, procedures, dimensions and performance attributes to provide control of the product during production. Product specifications may be based on a standard or a series of standards related to the product. Standards specify the performance requirements of a product and may include a set of characteristics or procedures that provides a basis for resource and production decision. Product specifications may be required on contractual agreements between buyer and supplier. In a manufacturing supply chain conscientious attention to specifications can lead to consistency in the quality of a product (Clock and Kunz, 2005). 

Answering these questions leads to formulation of general supply chain configuration decision-making objectives. These objectives can be formulated on the basis of performance attributes identified in the SCOR model (Stewart 1997) as described in Table 2.1. 

The aim of this research is to study if the Chinese cultural and social embedded guanxi networks are important in business practices and how they influence buyer-seller relationships and performances in vegetable supply chains in China. We interviewed 8 case companies to explore their guanxi network, trust, transaction specific investments, channel and governance choices and performance attributes of transaction costs and quality satisfaction. Summaries of the 9 selected buyer-seller relationships (relationship 1-9 in Figure 2-6) for each case company are listed in Table 2. 

In SCOR model application, this level is intended to define process types and priorities for improvement. At Wireless Services, it focused on the "value proposition" the company was promoting. The philosophy employed by SCOR uses competitive comparisons to establish what is considered the "basis for competition" or BOC. At Wireless Services, senior management examined each product line against supply chain performance attributes and decided on objectives for performance related to competition. Figure 23.2 shows the format of the product line BOC structure. 

Figure 23.3 shows each performance attribute and the needed "distance" to reach the desired BOC level of performance. Such an analysis is the foundation for devising supply chain solutions. As Wireless Services put it in their presentation, the exercise "defined the business problem."... 

Nickel-cadmium batteries with thin sintered plates are used for on-board power supplies in aircraft, helicopters, tanks and military vehicles where their excellent low temperature, high rate performance is an important attribute. Modern 40 Ah cells designed for airborne use can deliver 20 kW of instantaneous power at 25°C and over 10 kW at —30DC. Again, the high cost of this system compared with that of lead-acid batteries has restricted its use. 

The purpose of validation is to demonstrate the capability of the water treatment and air handling system to continuously supply the required quantity of water and air with the specified quality attributes. Documented means to provide documented evidence. Validation provides the system owner with the means of assessing when a water treatment and/or air handling system is operating outside established control parameter limits and provides a means for bringing the system back into a state of control. It results in written operating and maintenance procedures for personnel to follow, which in turn helps ensure consistent system performance. 

The partial oxidation of cinnamyl alcohol (Ph-CH—CH-CH2OH) to cinnamalde-hyde was conducted in the presence of a surfactant (sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate) because reactant and product were insoluble in water [45,50]. Oxidation on Bi-Pt/AljOj catalysts was performed at basic pH obtained by addition of Li2C03, and by controlling the air supply to avoid over-oxidation of the metal. The maximum selectivity for cinnamaldehyde, 98.5 % at 95.5 % conversion, was obtained for a Bi/Pts ratio of 0.5. The high selectivity for cinnamyl aldehyde was attributed to the negligible hydration of the aldehyde because of the conjugation of C—O, C=C, and aromatic nucleus (see Section 9.2.2.1). Under similar conditions the selectivity for oxidation of 1-dodecanol [50] to dodecanal was poor. 

Iron availability is low in rice and maize-based phytate-rich Third World diets, and blood losses due to hook-worm infections are frequent in these countries. Iron deficiency is the most widespread micronutrient deficiency besides vitamin A and iodide. The prevalence of iron deficiency may be as high as 60% in Third World pre-school children, and almost half of these children (26%) show iron-deficiency anemia (Romero-Abal et al. 1995). However, about half of the even higher prevalence for anemia of up to 70% in African women and children (Quar-shie and Amoaful 1998) seems attributable to inflammation and parasitic infections (Asobayire et al. 2001) and other micronutrient deficiencies, rather than to iron deficiency (Allen et al. 2000). Hypochromic microcytic iron-deficiency anemia reduces physical work capacity, and both show a close correlation (Dallman 1982). As the brain is luxuriously perfused with blood, impairment of intellectual performance in anemia is a very variable symptom. Anemia at an age of 12-18 months seems to compromise the infant s intellectual development. To what extent such deficits in intelligence can be compensated during later development at adequate iron supply levels has been discussed, somewhat controversially, by Walter (1993) and Pollitt (2001). 

Their contribution was to use the contingency theory approach to propose a new method for the assessment and classification of suppliers based on their supply chain characteristics, its structure and supplier s attributes and performances, modified by factors in the supplier s specific environment namely exogenous and... 

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