Sentence examples for sourcing flexibility from inspiring English sources
Two key 'sources' of flexibility are investigated: vendor flexibility and sourcing flexibility.
A new taxonomy that dynamically links vendor and sourcing flexibility with lean, agile and leagile supply network strategies is proposed.
The burden to apply and maintain multiple licenses for a single product significantly reduces product sourcing flexibility and affects continuity of supply, thus impacting patients in the case of product shortages.
Two new types of leagility are put forward: (1) leagile with vendor flexibility systems, which combine the use of agile vendors with lean sourcing practices and (2) leagile with sourcing flexibility systems, which combine the use of lean vendors with agile sourcing practices.
The Round Rock, Texas, company designed its Dell Digital Jukebox so that it can use 1.8-inch hard drives from either Toshiba or Hitachi, making it bulkier than the iPod; but that flexibility in sourcing the drives will help Dell drive down prices faster.
It enables fluctuating renewable energy (such as wind, solar, wave power and low value heat sources) to utilise new sources of flexibility such as solid, gaseous, and liquid fuel storage, thermal storage and heat pumps and battery electric vehicles.
In comparison with conventional accelerators, laser-driven sources offer significant improvements including a higher laminarity at the source; greater flexibility of generated ions; a high number of particles per shot; compact acceleration.
We first address how the variable and unpredictable nature of wind and solar energy increases the demand for flexible resources and we discuss potential sources of flexibility.
A second source of flexibility comes from enforcement options.
Two electric heating methods are of particular interest, since heating is an attractive source of flexibility in a cold climate.
A model is developed to simulate the nonlinear response of planar reinforced-concrete frames including all sources of flexibility.
