Selection of Suppliers. Among the qualified suppliers, NRK will select 5 - 8 suppliers who will be invited to participate in the competition and thus get an invitation to tender. Selection will take place based on an overall assessment of the suppliers as to those that to the greatest extent meet the qualification requirements in section 2.2 – 2.4 above.
Selection of Suppliers. Plexus agrees it shall use reasonable commercial efforts in selecting third party Component suppliers
Selection of Suppliers. The SCSC shall, without unreasonable delay after the Effective Date, agree on the criteria for the selection and qualification of Product Suppliers. On the basis of such criteria the SCSC shall recommend to the JSC for approval any Product Suppliers needed after the Effective Date in addition to the suppliers listed in Exhibit 6.4.7(a) attached hereto. All other decisions and actions to be taken concerning Product Suppliers shall be made by the SCSC and no Party shall take any unilateral actions with respect to any such Product Supplier except as determined by the SCSC, and except during the Initial Supply Period. ViroPharma shall provide Aventis with copies of all draft agreements with Product Suppliers for prompt review and comment by Aventis. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.4.7(a), ViroPharma shall be permitted unilaterally to enter into an agreement with a Product Supplier listed in Exhibit 6.4.7(a), provided that ViroPharma makes good faith efforts to incorporate reasonable comments provided by Aventis to ViroPharma. ViroPharma may not become a manufacturer of VP Compound, VP Product, or Finished VP Product without the prior written approval of Aventis.
Selection of Suppliers. The existence and the duration of contracts are likely to affect the number of carriers selected over the planning horizon. Table 6 displays the average percentage of carriers activated by the shipper in the optimal (or best found) plans. It also gives the percentage of permanent carriers (i.e., those who remain active in all periods of the horizon) and the percentage of carriers selected in low (respectively, high) season. % Carriers He = 1 Season He = 2 Season Full horizon Low High Full horizon Low High Small 80.30% (50.6%) 52.3% 65.0% 78.61% (51.6%) 52.6% 64.8% Medium 81.36% (32.2%) 43.8% 57.1% 77.97% (37.3%) 43.8% 58.5% Large 85.46% (32.1%) 49.1% 57.9% 80.63% (39.0%) 48.8% 59.6% % Carriers He = 3 Season He = 4 Season Full horizon Low High Full horizon Low High Small 77.36% (54.6%) 51.3% 65.3% 74.17% (60.2%) 52.0% 66.0% Medium 73.69% (41.0%) 43.6% 57.9% 72.89% (44.8%) 43.6% 58.5% Large 78.85% (37.8%) 48.1% 60.4% 77.18% (44.3%) 47.9% 60.0% Table 6: % of carriers selected (% permanent) – % selected in low and high season We see that the selected carriers represent on average between 72% and 86% of the number of available candidates. As one might expect, this proportion tends to decrease with the duration of the contracts, and to increase slightly with the instance size. More interesting is the relatively large gap between, on the one hand, the percentage of carriers whose services are utilized at least once, and on the other hand, the percentage of permanent carriers. For medium or large instances, in particular, the proportion of permanent carriers is only between 30% and 45%. Moreover, the carriers used in low season are not necessarily the same as in high season: indeed, on average, 43% to 53% of the carriers are used in low season, whereas this number ranges from 57% to 65% in high season, still significantly less than the total number of carriers selected overall. All these observations point again to the fact that flexibility in the choice of carriers is effectively exploited in the optimization process.
