Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe Management: Communication Methodologies and Decision Support Tools for the San Diego County Water Authority - a Case Study

Author(s):  
Martin R. Coghill
2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Vesier

Abstract Effectively managing unpredictability requires decision support tools that can predict the financial and business outcomes of various supply chain strategies. This paper will discuss the role of these decision support tools and their characteristics as well as review a case study. In the case study, decision support tools facilitated development of strategies that increased after tax profit by $140 Million. These strategies included: • Reliability improvement strategy: Identifying the reliability improvements that offered the biggest profitability impact. • Supply chain strategy: Defining inventory management and production scheduling rules that ensured order shipment within two days. • Capital investment strategy: Defining when new capacity should come on line as well as the minimum capital investment.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris McIntyre

This article explores the motivations of public sector managers in developing and deploying digital tools to support decision making at the front lines of public service delivery. Two digital decision support tools created by New Zealand’s Ministry of Social Development are presented as a case study, drawing primarily on semi-structured interviews with senior managers. Results provide empirical evidence that public sector managers deploy digital tools not to curtail, but to support street-level bureaucrats’ discretion. Managers appear to be motivated not by increased control over front-line staff, but, rather, by improving clients’ experience of the system and decreasing longterm service costs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 206 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Cotter ◽  
Folkard Asch ◽  
Bayuh Belay Abera ◽  
Boshuwenda Andre Chuma ◽  
Kalimuthu Senthilkumar ◽  
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