Shift in trend Sample Clauses

Shift in trend. In the later years the trend has shifted in scheduling from traditional scheduling to interval scheduling. Traditionally scheduling was known to be resource oriented logistics and a supply based approached for production. This was a production strategy where resources set the premises for the production level and completion time of the jobs. According to Xxxxxxxx (1998), this new trend represented by interval scheduling is referred to as demand oriented logistics. This is a demand based production strategy, where the demand of jobs set the premises for the planning. The job starting time and length is almost determined, and the needed resources must be allocated thereafter. Causes of this new trend may be many, but some main reasons stand out. The first reason is that the requirements from customers are constantly increasing, and the companies struggle to follow up. Because of the dedicated aim to always satisfy the customer, and the increasing competition in the world market, the results are that many continuously try to improve their business. This means that customers now play a larger and more important part for the businesses than before. As a result it has led many to become more influenced by their customers when planning, states Spieksma (1998). In some cases, one of the advantages with the new trend is that the customers push to adjust deliveries more to their own production strategy. This improves predictability for their own production. The same change causes the company to deviate from their optimal production strategy in order to adapt to the customer. This new scenario with customers controlling companies‟ supply chain differs from earlier, as when companies where planning with their own supply chain unaffected. This of course depends on the industry and the different distribution of power in the supply chain. Where companies need to add jobs as fixed deals, there is less room for change than if they had solved the problem with traditional scheduling. This also means that resources must be more dynamic. Spieksma (1998) states that traditionally the issue was usually whether the job fits the available resources. The trend has now shifted towards accompanying customers requests given a fixed job time (determined by the customer), almost no matter what. This is highly the current situation within the oil industry. With the uncertainty this brings along, a company might then need a larger workforce than before to man the jobs of the given dates. ...
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