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Joakim Hjortland
No full textFor most Americans, soccer is a weekend activity for little boys and girls, but travel outside our unenlightened borders and you quickly learn that soccer (or football to everyone else) is a religion. So it was for Joakim Hjortland, who discovered his passion for football when he was 6. Joakim, one of Andrews University’s growing number of online students, is a religion major who is studying from his home in Bergen, Norway. Until he turned 17, Joakim planned on a career as a member of a FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) team with golden dreams of World Cup games. But all of that changed when God showed Joakim that there are trophies more important than the World Cup. Joakim is now living a life of service as a speaker, author and an elder in the Bergen Seventh-day Adventist Church. More than that, Joakim has channeled his enthusiasm and intensity into a growing ministry. He is putting what he has learned in his Andrews University program to practical use by spreading the word of God and changing the world. Take a step into Andrews University’s virtual campus and learn more about Joakim and his remarkable journey in Stories of Andrews at andrews.edu/stories.
Alayne Thorpe Dean, School of Distance Education & International Partnerships/School of Graduate Studieshttps://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/stories-2018-spring/1003/thumbnail.jp
Stories of Andrews: Joakim Hjortland
No full textFor most Americans, soccer is a weekend activity for little boys and girls, but travel outside our unenlightened borders and you quickly learn that soccer (or football to everyone else) is a religion. So it was for Joakim Hjortland, who discovered his passion for football when he was 6. Joakim, one of Andrews University’s growing number of online students, is a religion major who is studying from his home in Bergen, Norway. Until he turned 17, Joakim planned on a career as a member of a FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) team with golden dreams of World Cup games. But all of that changed when God showed Joakim that there are trophies more important than the World Cup. Joakim is now living a life of service as a speaker, author and an elder in the Bergen Seventh-day Adventist Church. More than that, Joakim has channeled his enthusiasm and intensity into a growing ministry. He is putting what he has learned in his Andrews University program to practical use by spreading the word of God and changing the world. Take a step into Andrews University’s virtual campus and learn more about Joakim and his remarkable journey in Stories of Andrews at andrews.edu/stories.
Alayne Thorpe Dean, School of Distance Education & International Partnerships/School of Graduate Studie
Vitulus aureus [electronic resource] : the golden calf. Or, a supplement to Apuleius's Golden ass. An enquiry physico-critico-patheologico-moral into the nature and efficacy of gold: The prodigious Changes it causes in the Minds of Men; so as sometimes to make a Fool become a Man of Parts, and a Man of Parts a Fool. With the wonders of the psychoptic looking-glass, lately invented by the author, Joakim Philander, M.A.
No full textJoakim Philander is a pseudonym.With a half-title.Half-title from ESTC/NA. Work noted in Gentleman's Mag. register of books for Jan. 1739Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
Financial Measures and Their Relations to Decoupling Points and Decoupling Zones
No full textPart 3: Knowledge Based Production ManagementInternational audienceFinancial management is concerned with the financial evaluation of activities performed in the supply chain. Each activity has implications on the financial situation but the actual cause-effect relation involved in this context is not always obvious. From a return on investment (ROI) perspective the financial measures revenue, cost, and assets, i.e. investment, are identified. Strategic lead-times have been highlighted in the literature as key components for flow design. Strategic lead-times are thereafter further analyzed and the relations between financial measures and strategic lead-times are outlined. Based on these relations, it is possible to establish a relation between financial measures, and decoupling points and decoupling zones. Subsequently this is shown to also provide a reference to supply chain management strategies as they are defined in the literature
An ontology for flow thinking based on decoupling points – unravelling a control logic for lean thinking
No full textContinuous flow is the guiding star for lean thinking and considered the ideal state for value streams. Despite this objective, it is seldom possible to obtain a state of continuous flow in a wider context. Decision makers face dynamic environments, and variable internal preconditions require a flow-thinking approach that provides support in response to these challenges. In the present study, the underlying logic of flow thinking is first identified as the key management layer, and thereafter the effectiveness of flow is targeted. The vision of continuous flow is challenged by different exogenous requirements that result in flow discontinuities. Flow thinking is then used to identify 10 decision categories based on these discontinuities, each related to a type of decoupling point and classified as time-based (exogenous) or conversion-based (endogenous). The flow-thinking approach is finally applied in three different contexts: a time-phased product structure, a modularized approach for planning and control, and a mixed-model value stream
Supply Chain Management Strategies in Terms of Decoupling Points and Decoupling Zones
No full textPart 2: Knowledge Discovery and SharingInternational audienceSupply chain management is concerned with decisions related to the physical perspective of the enterprise and how the flow of goods and services is arranged. A wide set of strategies have evolved over time to provide guidelines for the decision makers but many of these strategies share a common foundation in process management that is based on decoupling points and decoupling zones. The strategies concerned here are segmentation, leagility, customization, postponement, servitization, sustainability, outsourcing, and visibility
A control engineering approach to the assessment of supply chain resilience
No full textThis is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in International Journal of Production Research, 50(21), 6162 - 6187, 2012 [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00207543.2012.710764.There is no consensus on the supply chain management definition of resilience. To aid in evaluating the dynamic behaviour of such systems we need to establish clearly elucidated performance criteria that encapsulate the attributes of resilience. A literature review establishes the latter as readiness, responsiveness and recovery. We also identify robustness as a necessary condition that would complement resilience. We find that the Integral of the Time Absolute Error (ITAE) is an appropriate control engineering measure of resilience when it is applied to inventory levels and shipment rates. We use the ITAE to evaluate an often used benchmark model of make-to-stock supply chains consisting of three decision parameters. We use both linear and nonlinear forms of the model in our evaluation. Our findings suggest that optimum solutions for resilience do not yield a system that is robust to uncertainties in lead-time. Hence supply chains will experience drastic changes in their resilience performance when lead-time changes
Kundorderstyrning och frikopplingszoner
No full textMed kundorderstyrning avses att kundens önskemål på någotsätt påverkar, d v s styr, hur den försörjande enheten agerar.Den här kopplingen till kunder innebär att företag som befinnersig nära kunderna kan utveckla konkurrensfördelar somföretag på längre avstånd från kunderna har svårt att möta.Olika grad av kundorderstyrning innebär på så sätt en viktigmöjlighet för t ex svenska företag att stärka sin position påhemmamarknaden i förhållande till konkurrenter med produktioni andra länder. Det teoretiska stödet för att beskrivaförsörjningssystem ur ett kundorderstyrningsperspektiv ärdock relativt begränsat. En viktig komponent är kundorderpunktenmen det är ett lite trubbigt verktyg som framförallt äranvändbart i renodlade fall med en tydlig uppdelning i prognosdrivnaoch kundorderdrivna aktiviteter. Här ges en meromfattande teoretisk plattform för kundorderstyrning sombaseras på en generisk bas av frikopplingspunkter och frikopplingszonervilka sedan appliceras i termer av processdrivare(kundorderpunkt och kundorderzon) och slutligen tillämpasoch tolkas med exempel från MRPII respektive lean produktion</p
Dynamic Modelling and Analysis of Information Flows in Production-Inventory and Supply Chain Systems
No full textSystem dynamics is the fundamental concept of this academic dissertation. The focus is on analysis and modelling of properties representative for production-inventory and supply chain systems. The modelling approach is based on Industrial Dynamics but employs a hybrid approach of Control Theory and simulation in the analysis. Simplification based on a structural approach is performed on block diagrams of complex systems as a prerequisite of analysis. In general, there are three main activities of interest when modelling manufacturing systems from a system dynamics point of view. Thus forecasting, lead times and inventory replenishment rules are each analysed and the properties of the suggested models discussed. Analogies between delays and density functions are identified introducing the concept of expected dynamic behaviour. Inventory replenishment rules based on inventory position enables a decomposition of production-inventory systems, thus simplifying the inclusion of trigger decision rule models. A production-inventory system and the Forrester supply chain are analysed based on a system simplification approach. It is shown that the amplification of demand fluctuations of the original Forrester model is not due to the much quoted feedback effect. Instead it is shown that no net feedback exists within the echelons due to cancellations of feedback information. Hence, the amplification is due to the design of the feedforward of orders through the supply chain. A difficult problem is the performance evaluation of dynamic systems. It is known that the net present value of a system can easily be obtained if a Laplace or z-transform model of the system and its cash flows exists. This theory is expanded also to cover general state space models and an application to a simple production-inventory model is given. In most cases, however, the models do not capture all aspects of economic relevance. Instead, as a complement to the cash flow based analysis, a multiple criteria approach for evaluating complex systems is suggested.</p
Ledtidsbaserat ramverk för kundorderstyrning
No full textGrad av kundorderstyrning är ett av de mest kritiska besluten för att skapa konkurrensfördelar i en industriell verksamhet. Som beslutsstöd för den utmaningen presenteras här en ledtidsbaserad analysmodell. Modellen definierar beslutsdomäner och omfattar kritiska beslut om grad av senare-läggning, tjänstefiering, kundanpassning, utkontraktering, och transparens.</p
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