A quick response (QR) program is a proven system to deal with the ever changing customer's demand and requirements. Effective information system is one of the backbones to have a successful QR program. This paper discusses how each of the recent technological developments in information technology (IT) has impacted QR program. This paper also discusses the steps that companies need to take in order to take complete advantage of these IT developments, as well as the directions of where IT and QR are heading.

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Impact of Information Systems on Quick Response Programs

Fonde en 1853, le King Ranch couvre 333 865 hectares et reste l’un des plus grands ranchs des Etats Unis Des centaines de romans, d’histoires, de recueils de photographies, de memoires et d’ouvrages traitant de la gestion des animaux prennent le ranch comme sujet et offrent des evocations complexes et contradictoires de cette manifestation exemplaire de la puissance des blancs a travers 150 ans d’histoire americaine et de relations frontalieres Cet article met les differents discours suscites par le ranch en dialogue en croisant les traditions sociale, economique, representative et environnementale de cette ferme-royaume avec les histoires officielles et le site internet du ranch Cette analyse du King Ranch et de la litterature qui lui est associee met en lumiere les insuffisances des generalisations que suscitent ces empires agricoles en faisant apparaitre les incoherences que revele l’intersection entre mythe, metaphores et realite de l’exploitation En s’appuyant sur les outils de la geographie culturelle, des etudes environnementales, litteraires et culturelles en association avec des methodes habituellement etrangeres a ces champs d’investigation telles que la gestion des ranchs et la science de la prairie, regroupees sous l’etiquette « Etudes des Lieux », cet article indique une orientation nouvelle qui pourrait s’ouvrir dans le domaine des Etudes Americaines

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Preserving Home and Revising History: Legacies of the King Ranch of Texas

The UE Directive 92/1996 established the main conditions for launching the liberalization process in energy field and its possible consequences. The measures proposed by the European Commission seek to create a single European wholesale electricity market by 2005, project of which would benefit not only industrial consumers but also households. The Directive lays down a set of measures designed to guarantee transparency of prices, quality of public service, security of supply and equal access. The establishing, the implementing and the developing of an European wholesale electricity market is a complex process, on a medium and long term, and it should be based on an unitary approach regarding the implementation of the competition and the associated involvements related to the safety and reliable operation of the power systems and the quality of the delivered electric energy. It is generally accepted that wholesale markets should encourage short-term efficiency - in terms of scheduling and dispatch decisions, long-term efficiency - in terms of investment decisions, security of supply and robust competition to ensure consumers are protected. The Systems will gain economic benefits if operations are driven by regional power demands and location price signals instead of individual system requirements.

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Romanian proposal for the establishment of a power reserve market

Hawaii's Parker Ranch uses the largest hybrid solar panel and wind turbine system in the world to power its pumps. Solar panels are used during the day and wind turbines throughout the night to produce a constant, reliable source of power. Etude technico-economique de l'installation hybride de production d'electricite, a l'aide de panneaux solaires le jour et d'aerogenerateurs la nuit, pour alimenter la ferme d'elevage, Parker ranch, a Hawai.

Down on the ranch

Encouraged by legislation, producing power through waste burning is on the increase in Europe. But in spite of its ability to reduce landfilling, environmental groups remain sceptical towards waste to energy technology such as that used by Sydkraft in Sweden.

Waste not, want not

The idea of a single European electricity markert seems the perfect longterm solution for unifying competition and electricity tariffs, But is this just a pipe dream or is Europe getting closer to that reality? PEi gets an insight into the tasks ahead. Etude de l'avancement vers le marche unique de l'electricite, de l'importance economique de sa realisation et des obstacles rencontres.

Gero Di Piazza

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Down on the ranch

Waste not, want not

A single market means multiple solutions