Thursday, August 16, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
wish fulfilment in the modern world
Having barely passed an A level in English with a spectacularly low mark about 45 years ago, I am predictably confusable about usages and semantics. So what you mean may be obvious, but not to me.
This morning I was overtaken by a white van belonging to a
logistics company. On the back door of the van it
said the company offered “warehousing fulfilment”.
I was slightly startled because I couldn’t remember having ever used the word fulfilment in conversation
unless it was the second part of the clause “wish fulfilment”.
I wondered, could I now suppose that for some people the idea of
“warehousing fulfilment” provokes a nice warm glow ? I tried to picture the girls in our office experiencing this modern thrill.
Those of you who already speak the specialized language of logistics
and of organisation and methods will deride my quaint old-fashioned naivety so
I have now tried to understand your point of view.
The order fulfillment strategy also determines the de-coupling point in the supply chain[3], which describes the point in the system where the "push" (or forecast-driven) and "pull" (or demand-driven see Demand chain management) elements of the supply chain meet. The decoupling point always is an inventory buffer that is needed to cater for the discrepancy between the sales forecast and the actual demand (i.e. the forecast error). It has become increasing necessary to move the de-coupling point in the supply chain to minimize the dependence on forecast and to maximize the reactionary or demand-driven supply chain elements. This initiative in the distribution elements of the supply chain corresponds to the Just-in-time initiatives pioneered by automobile manufacturers in the 1970s.
The order fulfillment strategy has also strong implications on how firms customize their products and deal with product variety [4]. Strategies that can be used to mitigate the impact of product variety include modularity, option bundling, late configuration, and build to order (BTO) strategies—all of which are generally referred as mass customization strategies.
from ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_fulfillment
So, Yes it is obvious, but clearly there has been a need to evolve a new lexicon to fit the situation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicon
And clearly I'm getting out of my depth and it must be time for my cocoa. Sweet dreams, y'all !
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
this is dev ...
... who was born in bangladesh but has lived in london since 1953 ... we often chat on a bench on clapham common ... he struggles heroically with mortality and despair and the fog of memory ... he is a disciplined exerciser of the body, still, but not the mind ... neither of us think there is a heaven or an afterlife ... i think that the only afterlife is the one we instinctively invent for those that we most love and miss ... dev finds it hard to concentrate nowadays but occasionally he shows the origins of his spiritual roots when he asks that ancient rhetorical question "why are the gods punishing us ?" ... today we failed to agree a viewpoint on the subject of justice ... i am more interested in the due processes of inquiry after the crime and during the trial than in whether the culprit is punished ... the example i used was tony blair, who has yet to stand trial for "blithely unleashing the dogs of war" on innocent civilians ... i don't care if blair lives or dies but i fancifully want him to visit the scenes of his crime and to understand and acknowledge the consequences of his folly ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dogs_of_war_(phrase)
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
3BT
In the
middle of the night, the humidity relieved by a cooling breeze, a girl in the flimsiest of summer dresses gets off the bus
at the same stop and asks if she can use my phone because hers is dead and she
has mislaid her boyfriend. Sweet voiced.
Sweetly perfumed. She stands too close to me. Is it my imagination or can I feel the heat rising
from her body against my cheek ? She also
gives off that other scent ... of one who will
never know when to stop drinking.
Coming
homewards in the afternoon, a very black skinned woman is sitting in the seat
across the aisle from mine. She is tall
and muscular and has the up-turned-est
nose you ever saw. She sits erect, head
back so that the prominent cheekbone extends in a long horizontal line from the
middle of the ear to just below the eye and you can see her face's every sinew moving beneath the skin. She is
knitting, with ferocioius dedication. Extremely
long slender fingers drawing thin scarlet wool from a carrier bag in her lap
and row after row of tiny identical stitches forming with unflinching
certainty. My mother used to knit,
freestyle, artistically, and so I watch, fascinated now, with both pleasure and pain.
Wearily, I
open the door of our empty flat and discover a fat envelope from Spain, addressed in a lively
script to Señor Tristan Forward, and I am rejuvenated.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
there was no evidence of human sacrifice when i approached the sacriligious artefact ...
... there was a slight delay ... they had to deflate it after vainly trying to re-join the two halves ... and then there was happiness all around ... and there's a nice new cafe in the newly landscaped park, too ...
http://festival.london2012.com/events/9000963231
http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/461/a_to_z_of_parks/1293/burgess_park/1
http://www.southwark.gov.uk/downloads/download/1053/lda_design_for_burgess_park
Friday, August 3, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
3BT
Wages are credited to my empty account.
I turn off the engine in the dairy farm yard and sit quietly
watching the resident swallows flying around only six inches above the
concrete.
I stop the truck and switch off the engine once more in a narrow country lane as seven
schoolgirls squeeze by on their nervous ponies, and I try not to smirk as I recall
those Thelwell cartoons.
Monday, July 30, 2012
in the limden valley between stonegate and ticehurst
... in response to the question you don't often ask yourself ...
"what makes truck drivers content with their lot ?"
Sunday, July 29, 2012
a whitby boat mug .... the last one in the shop ... a nearly birthday present from the loved one
... of course it might take a year or two to settle on the right shelf
Friday, July 27, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
no more lon chaney nights !
... that nice doctor frankenstein up at the castle says the package-deal lobotomy with free personality transplant should come in to effect well before the next full moon
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
i was adamant ...
... but after much tearful argument with older and wiser heads in the drivers' rest room, i have reluctantly conceded that these ladies are neither
a) royalty
nor
b) star players in england's olympic hockey team
picture taken at five o clock this morning opposite norbury nick
Monday, July 23, 2012
lost in the post
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a few months ago i bought, piece by piece, here and there, a set of tunnicliffe's four "what to look for ... " ladybird books
i posted them to spain for some small boys whose father was english
they never arrived
i've assembled another set now but i'm photographing every page before i post them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tunnicliffe
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Friday, July 20, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
elliott school in putney
... is a bit of fifties architecture that needs to be knocked down because the fabric is so grievously dilapidated, but it is to be conserved as an example of design from that period
they are going to sell half their land for 34 million ( they hope ), and then spend most of it on the restoration
its a nice idea BUT ...
whilst the work proceeds they will need temporary classrooms and so they will stack them up right outside our kitchen window
and we shall lose our distant prospect towards the low slopes of the chiltern incline, beyond the edges of london
they say the buildings will be temporary ... three years only ... because the space they occupy must be made available for a play area
hmmm ! wasn't hadrian's wall temporary ?
http://www.elliott-school.org.uk/_files/66D14D277842D144432DA00E5A121604.pdf
Sunday, July 15, 2012
disturbing and distasteful
spanish fire fighters protesting against the new conservative government's economic policies in the city of la coruna
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=497299180296666&set=a.313419795351273.96563.248513638508556&type=1&theater
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