Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing or Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment

Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing

Author: Arthur J Kidnay

Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing explores the natural gas industry from the wellhead to the marketplace. It compiles information from the open literature, meeting proceedings, and experts to accurately depict the state of gas processing technology today and highlight technologies that could become important in the future. This book covers advantages, limitations, and ranges of applicability of major gas plant processes to provide a sound understanding from system fundamentals to selection, operation, and integration into the overall gas plant. It also describes the major operations involved in bringing the gas to the plant, information not usually discussed in most gas processing books. Comprehensive chapters cover field operations, inlet receiving, compression, dehydration, hydrocarbon recovery, nitrogen rejection, liquids processing, sulfur recovery, and the increasingly popular liquefied natural gas industry, focusing on liquefaction, storage, and transportation. The book also discusses plant economics, offering ways to make initial cost estimates of selected processes and determine capital costs of gas processing facilities. The descriptive approach in Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing makes this comprehensive text and reference well suited for both technical and non-technical personnel in the industry including chemical or mechanical engineers, plant engineers, students, and those who are new to the field.

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Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment: How to Create a Supply Chain Advantage

Author: Dirk Seifert

The groundbreaking Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) process is taking supply chain efficiency to unprecedented new heights. Using CPFR, both long- and short-term information regarding point-of-sale data, forecasting, shipping, production plans, and order generation is jointly planned by key trading partners using Web-based collaboration software -- creating a "glass pipeline" where all relevant information is shared in real time. Based on original research conducted at the Harvard Business School, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment gathers the insights and experiences of 38 leading CPFR practitioners from around the world and from a variety of industries, including manufacturers, retailers, consulting companies, and IT-solutions providers. Packed with valuable case studies and insider accounts from some of the most powerful companies using CPFR today.

Using the insights and recommendations in Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment, companies can make vast improvements in consistently troublesome areas, such as sales and order forecasting. In former models, sales forecasting was done solely by the sales department, which then drove the supply chain with frequently incorrect information. CPFR removes this kind of "silo" decision making and gets departments to gather and share crucial information, removing the walls between strategy formed on the supply side and that formed on the demand side. The Efficient Consumer Response concept ushered in a new era of cooperation between retailers and manufacturers, marketing and logistics. And it has now jumped light years ahead with CPFR, which promotes unprecedented cooperation among trading partners throughout the value chain. This important book will help you implement CPFR quickly, successfully, and in almost any setting.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword of the VICS CPFR Committee
	Preface
1	Efficient Consumer Response as the Origin of CPFR	1
1.1	The Goals and Tasks of the ECR Concept	3
1.2	The Reversal of the Push Principle to the Pull Principle in the Supply Chain	5
1.3	ECR - Collaboration Field Logistics: Supply Chain Management	7
1.4	ECR - Collaboration Field Marketing: Category Management	11
2	The CPFR Concept	27
2.1	The CPFR Value Proposition	27
2.2	Sales and Order Forecasts in the CPFR Process for Retail	41
2.3	CPFR Emerges as the Next Movement in Supply Chain Management	56
2.4	CPFR - Status and Perspectives: Key Results of a CPFR Survey in the Consumer Goods Sector and Updates	70
3	CPFR in North America	95
3.1	Major Trends in North American CPFR Adoption	95
3.2	Consumer-Centric CPFR	111
3.3	CPFR - Views and Experiences at Safeway	122
3.4	CPFR Implementation at Ace Hardware and Manco	127
3.5	CPFR Implementation at Canadian Tire and GlobalNetXchange (GNX)	140
3.6	The Power of Standards-Based Collaboration - The Uniform Code Council and CPFR	162
4	CPFR in Europe	173
4.1	CPFR: Ready to Take Off in Europe	173
4.2	Results of a CPFR Study in Europe	176
4.3	CPFR in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland	203
4.4	CPFR Implementation at dm-drogerie markt and Henkel in Germany	215
4.5	CPFR Implementation at dm-drogerie markt and Procter & Gamble in Germany	226
4.6	CPFR Implementation at Londis in Great Britain	234
4.7	CPFR Implementation at Henkel Spain	239
4.8	CPFR - Views and Experiences at Procter & Gamble	265
5	CPFR Perspectives and Roads to Implementation	283
5.1	Migration to Value Chain Collaboration Through CPFR	283
5.2	Integrating Collaborative Transportation Management and CPFR - A Proposed Process and Tactics for Managing the Broader Supply Chain Collaboration	297
5.3	The Foundation Is in Place - It Is Time to Transform	307
5.4	Avoiding CPFR Pitfalls in the Consumer Goods Industry	312
5.5	Virtually Vertical: A Supply Chain Model for the Collaboration Era	331
5.6	On the Road to the Network Economy - Developing an E-Transformation Roadmap for Profitable Growth in the Consumer Goods Industry	348
	Bibliography	363
	Contributing Authors	385
	Index	399
	About the Editor	411