Time-phased planning

Step 4 deals with identifying alternative facihty, equipment, procedural, and/or persotmel plans that will eliminate or minimize the deficiencies identified in the existing warehouse operation. From these alternative plans of action will come the specific time-phased plan of action to be recommended for meeting the warehouse requirements over the given platming horizon. 

The primary focus of end-of-phase 2 meetings is to determine whether it is safe to begin phase 3 testing. This is also the time to plan protocols for phase 3 human studies and to discuss and identify any additional information that may be required to support the submission of an NDA. It is also intended to establish an agreement between the agency and the sponsor of the overall plan for phase 3 and the objectives and design of particular studies. These meetings avoid unnecessary expenditures of time and money because data requirements have been clarified. 

For each, qiiestign divide the-time into planning, . writing cffiid revision phases (slse p. 308). ". t >... 

Distribution is the management of inventory to achieve customer satisfaction. Today, many companies have realized that distribution is a major frontier for both customer satisfaction enhancement emd cost reduction. It is important to remember that a good strategic distribution network plan is a requirement of success and that it should not be composed simply of ideas, thoughts, or possibilities whose validity has not been researched. The distribution network plan is based upon a set of premises concerning future sales volumes, inventory levels, transportation cost, and warehouse cost. Requirements should be defined, analyzed, and evaluated and should result in the development of a specific set of strategic requirements. A good distribution network plan is action oriented and time phased and keeps the ultimate customer s requirements at the forefront at aU times. 

The strategic master plan should be time phased to indicate when each recommended action should be implemented to meet changing warehousing requirements. Typically, scaled facility drawings should accompany each recommended action to illustrate what the facility will look like after a given action has been implemented. 

May offer the abfiity to time-phase a job and to do sophisticated interactive planning for needed resources such as labor, materials, and production facilities. 

The first one that will be described is MRP (materials requirements planning). Here is a definition of materials requirements planning from Operations Management, by William Stevenson A compnter-based information system that translates master schedule requirements for end items into time-phased requirements for subassemblies, components, and raw materials. ... 

Step 6 - Create Order Forecast. In this step, POS data, causal information, and inventory strategies are combined to generate a specific order forecast that supports the shared sales forecast and the joint business plan. Actual volume numbers are time-phased and reflect inventory objectives by product and receiving location. The short-term portion of the forecast is used for order generation, while the longer-term portion is used for planning. 

Material requirements planning (MRP)—A set of techniques that uses bill of material data, inventory data, and the master production schedule to calculate requirements for materials. It makes recommendations to release replenishment orders for material. Further, because it is time-phased, it makes recommendations to reschedule open orders when due dates and need dates are not in phase. Time-phased MRP begins with the items listed on the MPS and determines (1) the quantity of all components and materials required to fabricate those items and (2) the date that the components and material are required. Time-phased MRP is accomplished by exploding the bill of material, adjusting for inventory quantities on hand or on order, and offsetting the net requirements by the appropriate lead times. 

The basic logic of DRP is to compute the time-phased schedule of replenishments for each stock-keeping unit (SKU) in the distribution system that keeps the inventory level of that SKU at or above a specified safety stock level (which, of course, could be set to zero). Let the DRP horizon span planning periods t = and assume that the safety stock SS, the order lot size Q, and the... 

Time-phased merchandising/NPD (new product development) plan — multi-season... 

Consolidated plan Combined resource requirements for multiple action plans. Includes time-phased costs and benefits. 

In the model, JMI starts with a heavy emphasis on joint planning and coordinated execution. POS data is more central to the processing, down to its use in trend analysis, micro-marketing, and micro-merchandising opportunities. There is a time-phased element to sales forecasting that helps planning and execution of fulfillment across the total supply chain. 

From time to time, we plan to devote space in the Reports to special topics which are undergoing rapid development or growth. In this first volume, for example, an additional chapter (Chapter 10) reports on the important growth area of Phase Transfer and Related Methods . Because of the enormous volume of review literature dealing with general and synthetic methods, we have sought to provide a service to readers and have compiled a comprehensive list of Reviews on General Synthetic Methods at the end of the Report. 

Once a decision has been made that protective action is warranted, the type of protective action to be taken must be selected. It is convenient to identify three time phases, early, intermediate, and late within each, different considerations apply to most protective actions. Although these phases cannot be represented by precise periods and may overlap, they provide a useful framework for the considerations involved in emergency response planning. 

NOj Control. NO control limitations are described in both Tide 1 and Tide 4 of the CAAA of 1990. Tide 4 requirements affect only coal-fired boilers and take effect at the same time that the boilers are impacted by CAAA SO2 requirements. As of 1996, EPA had estabHshed Tide 4 NO limits only for tangentially fired and waH-fired, dry-bottom boilers that would be impacted by Phase I of the CAAA SO2 regulations (Tide 4). Limits of 0.22 kg/10 kJ (0.5 lb/10 Btu) and 0.19 kg/10 kJ (0.45 lb/10 Btu) have been set for wall-fired and tangentially fired units, respectively. The EPA based these levels on what was achievable using low NO burners. However, plants can employ a number of different front- or back-end emissions controls, including a combination of options, to achieve these levels. EPA plans to announce Tide 4 NO requirements for 300 additional boilers by late 1996 or eady 1997. 

Inspections should be carried out as study-specific inspections for critical phases of the study or as a batch of process inspections relating to critical tasks which are performed regularly and although may not be inspected for a specific study are inspected on a regular basis (e.g., once per month). The coordination of inspections is perhaps more difficult to predict than actually conducting the critical event. The use of local QA staff close to the sites where the field work is being conducted helps to reduce the travel time to the field sites and also the down time if the critical event cannot be made at the specified time. The use of computer planning tools to schedule fieldwork is very helpful, not only to the field staff but also to QA. 

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