Supply pipeline, performance measures

Using time to measure supply pipeline performance... 

In the same way that time can be used to measure the performance of a process within a company so it can be used to measirre the supply pipeline. Two measures are presented below that are key to imderstanding supply pipeline performance P-time and D-time. 

P-time and D-time are measures of performance of the supply pipeline. They are explained in section 5.2.2, but let us first look at the importance of time as a performance measure. 

AU of the above examples are agile supply chains, and each is dominated by a key player. The characteristics of an agile supply chain are quick customer response at each level of the chain, flexibihty, scheduling triggered by customer demand, open and real-time information flow, simultaneous new product development, and as Morgan (2004) says pipeline cost improvements. If agile is to be achieved measurement and control, or at the least monitoring of performance, is necessary. 

The upper boundary was located by measuring the pickup velocity of the material from the stationary bed. This was performed by depositing a layer of material in the glass section of the pipeline and levelling it, as shown in Fig. 1 la. Air was supplied to the pipeline at a low mass flow rale and slowly increased until particles began to be lifted from the layer into the air Stream. The air mass flow rale was then left constant until an equilibrium condition was... 

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