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How do the Oakland A's achieve results like this at a fraction of cost of a team like the Yankee's?
You have most likely seen or heard of the story behind the movie "Moneyball". In 2002 the Oakland Athletics had a very limited budget to "carry" their team roster through the season, and they still had to compete with topnotch teams in their league. Some of the teams they had to compete with, like the Yankees, spent up to four times (4x) as much as they did on their "inventory" of ball players (i.e. "products" in baseball). The A's turned away from traditional thinking on how to allocate their budget to field a team, which meant relying on the gut feel of managers and buying the highest priced players. Instead, they started to rely on "Sabermetrics", the use of statistical analysis to determine the most cost-efficient baseball players based on measure of in-game activity/history. Hence, based on mathematical models, the A's figured out how to best optimize the team at every position on the field. The result was that Oakland won 103 games in 2002, made it to the playoffs, and tied with the Yankees for most wins that season. Again, Yankees spent more than three times (3x) of what Oakland paid for its team, in the same year.
Coming back to the manufacturing world, in the same manner that Sabermetrics can help optimize the baseball players on a team, Multi Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) can optimize your inventory that is deployed throughout your supply chain, in order to achieve target customer service levels, and maximize profit. There are obvious parallels in taking the Moneyball philosophy to the optimization of inventories. Instead of the General Manager in baseball using statistics to determine the best players to have on a baseball team, the Supply Chain Manager can use statistics and mathematical models in a MEIO system in order come up with the highest profitable scenarios. By examining these scenarios, the Supply Chain Manager can decide how to right-size the inventory levels at different locations, and achieve targeted customer service levels, at the highest margins.
Of course, instead of baseball metrics (e.g. RBI's, on base%, ERA, salary), there are statistical supply chain metrics (e.g. Demand variability, supply variability, BOM, Inventory value, etc.) that can be used to objectively calculate the value of each unit of inventory that you plan to place at a given "position" in your supply chain (e.g. Raw Materials, WIP, Finished Goods, etc.). This would make it possible to optimize inventory deployment for meeting certain customer service objectives, and squeeze the most profit out of your supply chain, while not exceeding the budget allocated for working capital.
The Oakland A's are back in the playoffs again this year, with a budget that is one-third of the Bronx Bombers. Not surprisingly, the use of statistics (i.e. the right system) is helping them get the most out of their small budget.
Adexa has the equivalent of Moneyball's Sabermetrics for your Supply Chain, it's called the Inventory Optimizer to ensure each dollar of inventory is spent in the best possible way.
About the Author: Bill Green is the Vice President of Solutions at Adexa, for more information about him please visit http://adexa.com/company/green.asp
In our last blog article, we talked about how today's advanced planning technology can help with managing risk in a supply chain (read: Use Advanced Planning To Manage Supply Chain Risk). More importantly, we talked about how uncertainty (i.e. risk) in the supply chain, most often, leads to imbalances in the inventory levels. The following table was used to show how common supply chain issues lead to either too much, or too little, inventory at different points in the supply chain.
The good news is that many of the most frequent risks, and their impact on the inventory levels, are quantifiable. For example, most companies have a good idea as how reliable major suppliers are, how often certain machines breakdown, or how accurate are their demand forecasts. Furthermore, the negative effects that indirectly propagate to other parts of the supply chain can also be considered. For example in Japan, many of the suppliers who were not directly damaged by the recent earthquake, still felt the ripple effects of difficulties in procurement of raw material, shipping Finished Goods, and other logistical problems. These too, can all be calculated with a proper supply chain inventory model.
Let's talk about how supply chain planning technology can help. Since risk and its effects on inventories can be measured then wouldn't it be logical to manage supply chain risk from within your Inventory Planning system? In fact, today's advanced Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) systems are intelligent enough to be used for supply chain risk management. Forecast streams, incremental costs, revenue factors, service impact, etc. can all be dynamically modeled in a MEIO system. Supply chain risk scenarios can be simulated and their effects on inventory levels, profit margins, and customers can be closely examined. Such a technology can make it a lot easier to decide whether it would be worth to operate at a higher cost structure (for example, by introducing alternate suppliers, or increasing buffer inventories), or consider other options to mitigate risk. In some cases, you may even realize that it would be too expensive to greatly reduce certain risk factors. That is your choice, but as long as you can fully and systematically assess the consequences.
An MEIO system with supply chain risk management capabilities would be most useful in assessing the more frequent risks, causing the infamous inventory seesaw effects, rather than risks that may occur twice per century—such as Japan's recent earthquake. Take Apple for example, which was in middle of iPad2's launch, as the disaster occurred. According to CNBC, some of the components of this device are built only in more advanced manufacturing countries, such as its unusually thin battery. Chances are that Apple will not dramatically change this supply strategy due to a similar risk in the near future—even as it delayed iPad2's launch date in Japan by two months, and the wait time for all online orders increased to 4-5weeks. However, you can be sure that Apple has assessed many alternate supply strategies based on risks of much higher probability.
Risk assessment can never be too accurate. A Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization system can be your best tool in simulating, assessing, and mitigating risk factors, and their full impact on your supply chain. Feel free to use the comments section to tell us what tools you are currently using to manage risk in your supply chain.
For more information about MEIO, use the following links:
Download this ePaper: Demystifying Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization
Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0kpf2Qi_aE
About the Author: Kameron Hadavi is the Vice President of Marketing & Alliances at Adexa, for more information about him please click here.
The biggest risk in any supply chain is having either too much inventory, or too little, at different points in your supply network. Too much of it leads to additional cost, as well as waste of capacity and space for products that are not selling. On the other hand, not enough inventories would obviously lead to less revenue, and in many instances loss of valuable market share. After 3 years, GM is most likely to reclaim the title of the world's largest automaker from Toyota, the father of best supply chain practices in the industry--due to the Japan's earthquake's devastating effect on its production and inventory levels. Could it happen to you? You bet!
Some may argue that there are many more risks other than the two specified above. Our experience shows that all the other factors lead either to availability of inventory, or lack of it. Consider the following scenarios:
As you can see, every one of the above issues can create a risk that would ultimately lead to either too much, or too little, inventories at different points of the supply chain. So, you should consider adjusting inventories based on what risk level is best for you. Conversely, each potential risk would have an impact on availability of inventory. The amount of impact can be estimated by its relative importance. For example, a delay from a key supplier of Boeing, for a critical part, can cause months of delay in delivery of the Dreamliner—this is a much bigger risk factor than bad weather forecasts in some parts of Asia, during the monsoon season.
For each one of the potential issues listed above there is empirical data as to how often it happens. Most companies keep track of their supplier performance and supply chain issues with respect to delivery and quality. Based on this data, you can determine what the financial consequences of such events would be using advanced planning technologies that are now available to you. The use of this technology allows a more holistic approach, taking into account the entire supply chain's risk rather than pockets of exposure, such as the supply process, design issues, forecasting errors, or manufacturing glitches.
An unfortunate disaster, such as the recent earthquake in Japan, can cause many supply chain problems for a myriad of companies. By simulating an event such as this in a supply chain risk management system, you can estimate the potential loss as well as what it would have taken to avoid such a loss. If the cost of avoiding such a loss, which happens, say, once every 50 years does not justify it, then a number of steps can be taken to mitigate risk rather than building just-in-case inventories. For example, many automotive companies could have a standby supplier at a slightly higher cost, which can step in and mitigate the risk of supply disruption. Thus, the higher cost structure would be justified by removing the risk of halting the entire supply chain, when frequent risk factors materialize into supply problems.
In general, risk and cost have an inverse relationship; the higher the cost, the lower the risk, and vice versa. The idea is to know where the trade off is and at what cost the enterprise is willing to mitigate certain risk potentials. Of course, this does not mean that every time you increase the cost, you are necessarily lowering risk.
In summary, use advanced supply chain planning technology for a speedy answer on when to take a risk, and when not to, based on objective financial consequences. All it takes is a holistic process to risk assessment, and the right planning system. The technology is ready. Are you?
Dr. K. Cyrus Hadavi is the president and CEO of Adexa, for more information about the author please click here.
Los Angeles, CA, May 3, 2011—Adexa, Inc., the global provider of Supply Chain Planning and Demand Planning solutions, announced today that Rainbow Farms (Pty) Ltd, South Africa's largest processor and marketer of chicken, has selected Adexa as its supply chain solution provider. The first module, Adexa's Collaborative Demand Planner will be implemented at Rainbow and Vector Logistics, one of the country's major 3rd-party logistics service providers for the CPG/food industry, and also for Rainbow.
The management teams of both companies are determined to improve and automate their joint Sales & Operations planning processes. The goals of the project include reduction and optimization of inventories throughout the supply chain network, and creating a fully collaborative platform that drives the supply chain through more accurate and intelligent customer forecasts.
"We want to make better use of our infrastructure, reduce inventory and working capital, and further improve on our high standards of customer service," said Chris Creed, Managing Director for Vector Logistics. "To that end, we needed collaborative tools to get closer to our customers, and more advanced planning systems for production and profit planning. Tools provided by our own ERP system, and the spreadsheets, did not take us nearly far enough, but Adexa will."
"Rainbow and Vector are very important and strategic customers to Adexa," said Cyrus Hadavi, Adexa's CEO. "As a result of their selection, we have established new sales and support channels, in partnership with Sizwe Africa Business Consulting, to better serve them and our upcoming customers in that region."
About Rainbow Chicken and Vector Logistics
Rainbow Farms (Pty) Ltd, is South Africa's largest processor and marketer of chicken. Vector Logistics (Pty) Ltd, a division of Rainbow, is a specialist third-party logistics service provider (3pl) for the food and food-related industries within southern Africa across the retail, wholesale and food service sectors. Visit: www.rainbowchickens.co.za and www.vectorlog.com
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Everyone is aware of potential risks in running a supply chain but what is the process by which you evaluate that risk? And, figure out the alternative solutions to lessen or eliminate it?
I bet most companies, if not all, have no real objective risk management process in their supply chains. At best, they have processes in place for different organizational pockets within which risk is mitigated. Some examples are evaluation of suppliers by the Purchasing Department to ensure supply continuity, or redundancies in capacity, and even building too much, or too little, inventory—which proves more costly.
The fundamental question: what is the damage, when something goes wrong? And, what price are you paying to avoid such inevitable risks? Payment of an insurance premium is exactly that. You pay for a service that allows you to recover from a financial disaster or lawsuit. Insurance companies do their risk assessment very well and ask for a premium that makes them profitable even though every now and then they have to cough up the cost. Are you doing the same with your supply chain? What is the premium you are currently paying (within your own supply chain) to avoid a potential disaster? What is the potential cost of that disaster? And, is it worth the premium?
A common example of this is delivery performance vs. inventory (mix) at hand. I am sure you are familiar with the exponential operational curves that imply doubling your inventory for a 5% improvement in your delivery performance, from 92% to 97%. Does this make sense? How much is really enough? And, what is the actual cost of missing delivery rather than cost of holding inventory?
Management teams are encouraged to avoid risk. In other words, their incentive is to deliver rather than miss delivery. So, the employees will go out of their way to ensure delivery at company's cost! Again, does this make sense? Example: "sand-bagging" the forecast and "padding" the supply to avoid shortages are steps taken by two different organizations and processes, Sales vs. Production. Furthermore, supplier selection, cost turbulence, and delivery issues are also padded in an isolated way, adding to the overall inefficiency of risk management. How do you really assess the risk of one supplier over the other, especially as it impacts your bottom line and customer service? Consider the recent unfortunate disasters in Japan, as many of the car makers are struggling for alternate resources to get their parts delivered; earthquakes in Taiwan, SARS epidemic in China, dock worker strikes at Los Angeles ports are all other examples of supply risk.
Some element of risk avoidance is built into the jobs of each person, or department. However, if each person avoided risk in all the steps to deliver the goods, it would create too much cumulative redundancy--which would cause much higher additional cost in the final product. This can be avoided with a more holistic approach.
We believe that objective risk assessment must be part of the supply chain planning process and systems, so that objective decisions are made based on financial consequences rather than protecting select customers, or individual employees. To this end, a holistic approach offers more than just a simple spreadsheet-based S&OP process, but a Financial Sales & Operations Planning solution. The key word is "Financial", that is integrated into the rest of the enterprise's operations. Cost, revenue, profit, and risk become part of the supply chain equation, along with customer delivery and supplier management.
When was the last time you took a risk in your supply chain? What was the consequence? How much did the company benefit from it or lost because of it? Would you have liked to have a better optimization and analysis tool to evaluate your options? We invite you to join us in creation of the next generation of supply chain tools, integrating Financials with Sales and Operation Planning (FS&OP).
The first answer for most people is: "never". So, lets put this in context, we are not asking if you should totally ignore your customers' demand and market signals; we are really asking how important is it to track and consider individual customer demands/orders when planning your supply chain?
If you are a business-to-consumer enterprise, the individual demands do not really impact your supply decisions. For example, giant consumer product companies (from TV to toothpaste) do not track the individual orders when planning supply. They are all aggregated up to a total demand for a product. To that end, this aggregated-planning approach is ubiquitous in the CPG industry, which has high volumes and low variety of consumer products. For these industries, it is sufficient to aggregate all the end item demand into a total, and then net the total demand from the on-hand inventory, one period at a time. The required production, or distribution, is calculated to make up for the predicted deficit. That production quantity goes through a Bill-of-Materials Explosion (or the equivalent DRP calculation) and the dependent demand is used to do the same calculation on the next level of the BOM. Devised in the mid 1980's, this CPG logic is the dominant logic used by most supply chain planning systems, today. Of course, each company has its own variations on how to handle capacity and material constraints, or includes an LP (Linear Programing) engine to optimize on cost, but the basics of the logic are all the same--they all lose visibility to individual customer demands when planning.
How about turning the question around, when is it not OK to ignore customers when planning your supply chain? When does a company need to look for a different logic in their planning system, than the typical CPG logic described above? The answer is when you have critical constraints in your supply chain that cause you to have to stop treating all customers, and the associated demands, in exactly the same manner. This comes into play when you need your planning system to help you figure out what orders should get critical capacity, special priority, or materials that are in short supply. Examples of this are contractor capacity that is used to make multiple products, but is in short supply. Another example is a critical common component that goes into multiple products. The need to have visibility into orders when planning also comes into play when customer specifications require dependent levels of the BOM to be processed differently from each other. An example of this is "date-code" considerations, or qualifications for specific manufacturing locations. In each of these cases, the identity of the order and its attributes are important while planning it.
In conclusion, when looking for a new supply chain planning systems (like for demand planning, inventory planning, S&OP, etc.), a company should do the simple check outlined above and decide if traditional CPG logic used in most planning systems today is sufficient to handle their requirements. Given today's savvy customers and their complex needs, many enterprises opt for much greater demand visibility and attribute based planning systems.
To learn more about this topic download this ePaper: Attribute-Based Planning: How To Avoid Commoditization.
April 7, 2011-- Adexa announced today Monolithic Power Systems, a high performance fabless semiconductor company, has selected and are implementing Adexa's supply chain planning, and demand planning solutions.
"Our product portfolio has grown to hundreds of diverse products for worldwide customers, and we interact with multiple Foundries, Assembly and Testing sites. We turned to advanced information technology solutions to further optimize the whole demand and supply planning process, and to ultimately better service our customers," stated CEO, Michael Hsing, of Monolithic Power Systems.
With deployment of the new systems, Monolithic Power Systems expects to further improve visibility, accuracy, and performance optimization in its supply chain, while enhancing collaboration across multiple business units.
"We selected Adexa through a long RFP process involving multiple leading vendors. Adexa demonstrated very strong expertise in our industry and system implementation, and overall commitment to their customers", added Dr. Henry Zhao, Director of Global IT of Monolithic Power Systems.
"Semiconductors has always been a big focus for us," said Cyrus Hadavi, Adexa CEO. "In the past year we have been seeing strong demand for our planning solutions from the Fabless side of the industry. We are glad to see this trend continuing into this year as Monolithic Power Systems is being welcomed into our customer base."
For more information about challenges and planning solutions for the fabless industry, download this ePaper: Overcoming The Shortcomings Of Fabless Planning Systems
About Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
Monolithic Power Systems (MPS) is a high performance analog semiconductor company headquartered in San Jose, California. Formed in 1997, the company has three core strengths; deep system-level and applications knowledge, strong analog design expertise, and an innovative proprietary process technology. These combined advantages enable MPS to deliver highly integrated monolithic products that offer energy efficient, cost-effective solutions. Visit: www.monolithicpower.com
"Complex" is the common word we hear from many of our Fabless Semiconductor customers in describing their supply chains. We talked a bit about that in our last blog posting entitled: Fabless Semiconductor Planning: Between a-rock-and a-Hard-place! In this article, I want to touch on another culprit in complexity of a Fabless enterprises (or Semiconductors in general), proliferation of products.
It's no secrete that Fabless supply chain are faced with ever increasing number of products, and with that comes a lot more part#'s. It's one thing to deal with 3 products, and another thing to deal with 30. The part#'s involved increases exponentially with every end-product. Imagine this, in most cases our fabless customers are dealing with 100's of end-products. This makes crunching through the numbers for a supply chain "plan" very difficult and slow. Remember, in planning the entire supply chain, these part#'s have to be used for demand planning (when the customers order it), operations planning (how to build it), inventory planning (what to keep on hand), and Supply planning (which suppliers to use and when). The level of complexity is mind-boggling.
One of the new trends in dealing with this level of complexity is through Attribute Based Planning. We have written a lot about this in the past but it seems like our readers can't get enough of it, and for good reason--it works. Attributes really simplify modeling the entire supply chain by utilizing the "characteristics" of products to describe them, rather than using unique part#. For example, you may have a grade A, B, and C chips, at speeds of 1.66Ghz, 2.66Ghz, and 3.0Ghz. You can give all 9 potential combinations a unique product name, or you can have only 3 product names by referring to the attributes of (Grade + Speed). This is a very simple example, but you can learn a lot more about this by either reading the Attribute Based Planning ePaper or watching the "What is Attribute Based Planning" video on the Supply Chain Planning Channel.
You can apply attributes to all levels of planning but there is a catch--your planning system has to be able to handle attributes for the process its intended for. For example, for Demand Planning, the customer orders have to be described by their attributes within the system. For Production planning, the product routes have to defined by attributes within the same system, and so on. Basically, the entire logic and algorithms of your planning system has to be attribute-based, or you are stock with the unique part#'s.
For fabless companies, who deal with massive product proliferations, attributes will make life a lot easier on your many planners. They get to collaborate together much faster, and avoid a lot of clutter. Below, see how Silicon Laboratories is using attributes in their planning environment. Also, For more information on this topic download: Overcoming The Shortcomings Of Fabless Planning Systems ePaper.
For more information on this topic download: Overcoming The Shortcomings Of Fabless Planning Systems ePaper.
Now let's break the time and uncertainty factors down to their components. When it comes to manufacturing anything, there is always a Planning cycle-time, and a Manufacturing cycle-time. The latter, is the pure production time it takes to manufacture a product. Fabless companies don't control the manufacturing lead-time, since all of their production is outsourced. However, they do have the opportunity to manage the suppliers' capacity that is committed to them—which becomes part of the Planning cycle-time. They also have to worry about the uncertainty of what they will order with the amount of capacity that they have been promised. This makes the Planning cycle-time, and accuracy of the plan, twice as important to a fabless enterprise. Planning cycle-time, is the amount of time a company needs to plan, react, and/or rollout a new plan based on market demand, inventory positions, and supplier capacity commitments. Its reduction translates into less uncertainty and increased accuracy. To that end, reducing planning cycle-times is a colossal competitive factor in this market. Imagine cutting weeks out of your planning lead-times, which would directly impact your customer service, market share, and competitive positioning—amongst other things.
How can you battle time by achieving shorter lead-times? Or in terms of fabless, how can you reduce your Planning cycle times and increase plan accuracy? Before I answer that, let me ask you a question, how can a manufacturer produce goods faster? The simple answer is: better technology, and faster machines. The same thing goes for planning systems. If you want to fundamentally do it faster then you will need a new technology that can help you plan faster, collaborate more, and give you more visibility, thereby enabling better plans. There are many processes that need to have faster planning times such as demand planning, operations planning, inventory optimization, and of course supply planning. In picking the right system for your enterprise make sure you consider all these processes and how well the system adheres to your supply chain. After all what's the use of faster delivery times, if your inventories and cost is going through the roof.
Adexa is one of the providers of such technologies and systems, with a great deal of focus on the fabless industry. Below, one of our fabless customers talks about how they are using our systems to deal with fabless industry's tough challenges. Also, For more information on this topic download: Overcoming The Shortcomings Of Fabless Planning Systems ePaper.
When it comes to planning software, the terms "Lightweight", or "Light" can be very misleading. After all, what is a "light" planning application? The word itself really has no objective meaning, or a standard definition that can be measured to see which applications meet the requirements. In most cases, the term "light" is a marketing idiom that is used by a software vendor looking for a new market niche to sell products. To that end, buyers should take extra care in choosing a solution presented as such. Let's look at some big claims that are made about "light" planning solutions and some pitfalls to be aware of:
1) Lower Cost: Lightweight applications are trying to target a lower cost buyer.
Beware: A better measure here would be to understand the cost of the software and the potential business savings that can be realized with the given software package. Generally smaller companies look for "lightweight" since the potential for savings is less due to their size.
2) Fast: Speed is important in a planning application since it enables a planner to quickly analyze the plan, and run "what-if scenarios".
Beware: The "lightweight" planning software offer more speed by cutting functionality. An application should be examined based on the time that it takes to run, its ability to compare scenarios, and the level of granularity of the plan. The best of both worlds is a planning tool that offers functionality options to tradeoff speed and granularity. That way the company can reduce granularity in areas that are not important to the business and include detail in areas that can drive savings. A great example here is Sales & Operations planning. If you cannot properly model demand, inventory, or capacity, then you cannot make decisions about any of them.
3) Easy to Use: "Lightweight" sounds like something easier to use.
Beware: It may be a simpler application, but it may be harder to get business results. If the software does not do the analysis required because it cannot be configured properly, then the user has to figure things out using something else (back to the spreadsheet)—the old spreadsheet is easy to use, but it makes the job harder to do.
4) Fast to implement: "lightweight" is easy to implement, typically because there is not a lot to implement.
Beware: Better measures would be the time to get the initial business results, and time-to-payback on the software cost. Also, make sure to ask how the software configuration can be changed over time to continue to get additional savings and scale. It is much safer to implement limited functionality of a robust application than to figure out you came up short, later . Again, the ultimate lightweight planning tool is a spreadsheet, but it won't grow with your business.
The bottom line is that most businesses are already running the most popular "lightweight" planning tool out there and it is called a Spreadsheet. It is inexpensive, it runs fast, its easy to use, and fast to implement. But can you run an enterprise on it? Use the above criteria to get away from the marketing buzz and figure out the best software for you and your business.
Here is another blog posting that you may be interested in: Are You Still Using Spreadsheets To Plan Your Supply Chain?


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In spite of aggressive marketing, the pomegranate's well-known health benefits and its star role in everything from juice to shampoo, relatively few U.S. consumers are familiar with the fruit. Sources say they're working hard to change that.
"We've spent a lot of time, effort and money promoting poms, but in every household penetration I've seen — whether it's for juice, fresh fruit or arils — the number is very low," said Brad Paris, vice president and general manager of Los Angeles-based Pom Wonderful.
"There's a lot of room for improvement and growth."
In early November, Pom Wonderful plans a freestanding insert in national Sunday newspapers with a coupon for fresh pomegranates, Paris said.
An insert promoting arils will appear in 2013.
"We hope the coupon will get new people in the category and give longstanding customers a reason to go to the store and buy one," Paris said.
Madera, Calif.-based Western Fresh Marketing Services Inc. is shooting a promotional DVD to introduce its two pomegranate growers to consumers.
Sales and import manager Chris Kragie is offering the DVD to retailers with TV screens in the produce department.
"With everything that's going on with cantaloupes and food safety, we feel the more we can connect the consumer to the grower and show them what the fruit is about, the more it's going to increase their trust in the fruit and increase consumption," Kragie said.
The DVD idea, which worked well with the broker's fig deal, will take viewers from the field to the packing shed and include recipes to be demonstrated in-store.
"We'll also show people how to open the fruit and make their own arils," he said.
For its fig promotion, Western Fresh partnered with the California Fig Advisory Board to provide point-of-sale materials such as brochures and tear-off recipe cards.
"That's the next step with pomegranates," Kragie said.
"It hasn't been a big item for us, but now it's increasing and we have a small budget to work with."
Since late July, Reedley, Calif.-based D.J. Forry Co. has been driving consumers to its redesigned website, one step in the campaign to promote the 40-year-old company's new brand.
"We want to communicate to the mom out there with children and talk about the health benefits not only of pomegranates but of all the items we market," said vice president of marketing Ray England.

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Where's The Fire Marshal?
by Thomas MacMillan | Sep 3, 2013 4:07 pm
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The city hasn't had a fire marshal in over two years. Now it has something else: a lawsuit.
The city firefighters union is suing the city for not promoting a permanent fire marshal since former marshal Joe Cappucci retired in July 2011.
"Chief [Michael] Grant is breaking the law and he should be held accountable," said Jimmy Kottage, head of the firefighters union.
After Capucci stepped down, Deputy Fire Marshal Faustino Lopez was appointed acting fire marshal. He held the position until the end of July of this year, when he asked to be relieved of the responsibility, according to the union's lawsuit.
It's a violation of Connecticut General Statute 29-297 to have an acting, non-permanent fire marshal for more than 180 days, according to the lawsuit.
"Technically there's no fire marshal at the moment," Kottage said. "Now they're just breaking the law by not having someone in that capacity."
Chief Grant said the city does have a fire marshal. In fact, the city has several, he said.
"Currently, there are three individuals in the New Haven fire department fire marshal's office who have State of Connecticut fire marshal certification," Grant said. "Historically, in the absence of the fire marshal and deputy fire marshal, the life safety compliance officer has assumed responsibilities of the Fire Marshal as is now the case."
Without leadership in the marshal's office, required inspections are not being done, Kottage said.
The fire marshal's office is responsible for inspecting buildings and vehicles to ensure they're safe, and determining the cause of fires.
"They're not following the law. It's reckless," Kottage said.
Last week, the city promoted six firefighters to be fire inspectors in the marshal's office. Previously, the marshal's office had only four staffers.
"The City of New Haven has a steadfast and unwavering commitment to fire safety, having promoted six firefighters just last week to address vacancies in the Fire Marshal's Office," city Corporation Counsel Victor Bolden stated in an email. 'Moreover, the City expects to continue strengthening that office and its capacity. The lawsuit will be addressed at the appropriate time.
"We want them to test immediately or as soon as possible for a fire marshal," said Kottage.
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posted by: downtown dweller on September 3, 2013 5:13pm
The firefighters are not suing us because we are doing anything dangerous. They are not suing us because we are not already paying them enough. They are suing us because, they claim, we are "technically" in violation of a law, and they see this as another chance to get money out of us. Let's privatize these clowns and be done with this perpetual nonsense.
posted by: AverageTaxpayer on September 3, 2013 5:26pm
Wow, James Kottage is giving Lou Cavaliere Jr. a run for the money in the contest to see who can be the most tone-deaf union leader imaginable.
Why are we paying these clowns six figures, insanely lavish benefits, and retirement packages beyond belief? Clearly they have no respect for New Haven taxpayers.
Besides voting against Harp, what else can we do to put an end to this expensive joke that's being played out against us?
posted by: Elm City Lifer on September 3, 2013 7:11pm
According to the article linked below it seems that the fire union president kottage is part to blame for the problems in the firefighter marshalls office and department.he says he wants promotions,sues to stop promotions,loses the lawsuits but other fireman dont get promoted because of the delay.he seems more part of the problem than the solution.does he do this stuff just to stop everything so overtime stays high.
posted by: Dwightstreeter on September 3, 2013 8:01pm
Something is terribly wrong in the relationship between the Mayor's office and the Fire Dept.
Do these people really only communicate via a law suit?
Would Charlie Pillsbury please offer his services to these people?
The animosity has to stop.
posted by: NewHavenTaxTooHigh on September 3, 2013 9:10pm
Outsource the NHFD and save the taxpayers money and tons of aggravation
posted by: HhE on September 4, 2013 7:12am
May be the city ought to hire a lawyer just to deal with the NHFD's constant use of the courts. It is a full time job after all.
posted by: UNH Grad on September 4, 2013 8:05am
Before you call for the Fire Department to be outsourced, do a little research into Rye Brook, NY's experiment with outsourcing, they hired a contract firefighting service called Rural Metro, they're big in Arizona.
Spoiler alert: It failed miserably. As in "1 million dollar home burned to the ground because there weren't enough firefighters to respond" miserably. And that was BEFORE the Westchester County DA threatened to prosecute the "Chief" of this contract department for arson after he held live fire training in an abandoned structure without permission. Needless to say, Rural-Metro got out of the fire business in Westchester County.
posted by: Noteworthy on September 4, 2013 3:47pm
The unions of the NHFD should be declared a public nuisance. They gnaw through relationships and chew on taxpayers and do lots of damage. Call in a fire department management expert and re-org the hell out of this mess and turn it into something that reflects our needs and our budget. These unions are toxic.
posted by: Rivertostate on September 4, 2013 7:50pm
A challenge to all of those in favor of privatization of Fire Service in the city….
Find one comparable model of a privatized fire department. And by comparable I mean size, population, construction type, target hazards, and services provided. And please share with the rest of us.
Don't you think that if this privatization was sooooo great you would see municipalities all over the country doing it? Lemme guess, it's the big bad unions fault.
Bottom line is no matter how much you whine about it, a municipality has a responsibility to its citizens and visitors. And whether you like it or not public safety and education are at the top of that list.
By the way, firefighters saved 2 people from a house fire last week, extinguished a basement fire today, and saved a commercial building on Monday. What makes me laugh is that the Pendleton St fire article has 1 comment… Yup 1… Ya'll got nothing to say then.. Typical… You don't appreciate the NHFD until you NEED the NHFD.
As far as the fire marshal position… Curse that evil union for trying to ensure a state mandated (and budgeted) life safety and inspection position be filled.. How dare they!!!!
posted by: downtown dweller on September 6, 2013 3:06am
@ rivertostate
The only whining we taxpayers see anywhere . . . is from the union.
If this really is a terrible danger to our city—which most members of the NHFD don't live in—why didn't the NHFD sue us back at the beginning of 2012, when the 180-day clock expired? Wouldn't that have been the responsible thing to do, if this law is so vital to our (not your) safety? Let's see . . . you didn't sue us then. So we can assume that the timing of this latest litigation has nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with your contract negotiations with the new mayor.
And do us a favor and cut out the "education" malarkey. We taxpayers and voters of New Haven are plenty smart. We can educate ourselves about what kind of fire service we want. We don't need out-of-towners like the NHFD leadership telling us that we need to spend our money on services that make NHFD members rich . . . when most NHFD members don't even live here. If you NHFD members did live here, you might be less keen on suing us for more cash, because you'd lose out with every lawsuit. So yeah—let's privatize the fire service and see whether the world falls apart, as you say. If you're living out of town, it won't hurt you! You're exactly right: We don't appreciate the NHFD, and for good reason.


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Published October 23, 2011
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SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan - U.S. Senator John McCain said Sunday that
military action to protect civilians in Syria might be considered now that
NATO's air campaign in Libya is ending.
However, President Barack Obama's administration has made clear it has no
appetite for military intervention in Syria -- a close ally of Iran that
sits on Israel's border -- and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton noted Sunday that the Syrian opposition has not called for such
action as President Bashar Assad's regime.
"Now that military operations in Libya are ending, there will be renewed
focus on what practical military operations might be considered to protect
civilian lives in Syria," McCain said at the World Economic Forum in
Jordan. "The Assad regime should not consider that it can get away with
mass murder. Qaddafi made that mistake and it cost him everything," he
added, referring to ousted Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi who was captured
and killed last week by fighters loyal to the new government.
"Iran's rulers would be wise to heed similar counsel," McCain said.
It was not clear whether the Republican senator from Arizona was referring
to American or NATO military action against the Syrian regime, which has
waged a 7-month crackdown on opposition protesters and killed about 3,000
people, according to the U.N.
However, international intervention, such as the NATO action in Libya that
helped topple Qaddafi, is all but out of the question in Syria. Washington
and its allies have shown little inclination for getting involved
militarily in another Arab nation in turmoil. There also is real concern
that Assad's ouster would spread chaos around the region.
Syria is a geographical and political keystone in the heart of the Middle
East, bordering five countries with which it shares religious and ethnic
minorities and, in Israel's case, a fragile truce. Its web of alliances
extends to Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement and Iran's Shiite
theocracy. There are worries that a destabilized Syria could send
unsettling ripples through the region.
Most Syrian opposition groups, inside and outside Syria, also have said
they oppose military intervention.
Mohammad Habash, a member of Syria's outgoing parliament, said such
military action "will only bring catastrophes, wars and blood and this is
what we don't wish at all."
"We believe that the best way to protect civilians is diplomatic pressure
and pushing the regime to sit and talk with the opposition and pushing the
opposition to sit with the regime," said Habash, who has been linked to
the regime but has recently tried to position himself between the
government and the opposition.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on "Fox News Sunday"
that Washington is "strongly supporting a change from Assad and also an
opposition that only engages in peaceful demonstration." But she stressed
that Syria's opposition has not called for the kind of outside
intervention that Libya's opposition did.
McCain also warned Iran after it was accused in the United States of
backing a plot never carried out to assassinate the Saudi Arabian
ambassador to the U.S.
"Their plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington has only
reminded Americans of the threat posed by this regime, how it is killing
Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, supporting violent groups across the
region, destabilizing Arab countries, propping up the Assad regime,
seeking nuclear weapons, trampling on the dignity of Iran's people."
Iran has maintained its backing for Assad's regime, but has increasingly
urged him to halt attacks on protesters and open dialogue seeking to end
the unrest. Tehran has dismissed the U.S. allegations of the plot as
"baseless" and has said it was willing to examine hard evidence that the
U.S. claims links Tehran and the foiled assassination conspiracy.
Iranian officials have rejected tough talk from Washington as "rhetoric,"
saying the U.S. is not in a position to attack the Islamic Republic. The
country regularly holds war games to showcase its capabilities in
defending its nuclear facilities from possible attack.
The elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran's most powerful military force, has
warned that there would be a strong Iranian response should the U.S. take
military action against the country. Iran repeatedly has threatened to
target Israel should the U.S. or Israel take military action against it.
McCain also accused Iran of trying to "hijack" the Arab Spring.
"No issue unifies the American people more than the need to protect our
friends, our allies, our interests from the comprehensive threat posed by
the Iranian regime. No one should test our resolve in this matter," McCain
"Not to say that American leadership is neither welcomed nor wanted in the
Middle East today. To the contrary, as I travel across this region, I have
met with heads of state, young democratic activists business leaders and
nearly every single one wants more American leadership and not less."
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My son has a very nice dark brown fiberglass storm door on his home. It has a full view glass and the area below the door measures about 22 inches from the bottom of the glass to the bottom of the door. The only problem is the previous owner had a dog that would jump on the door and his "nails" eventually ripped the fiberglass. The door is insulated so a white "sand" has been slowly coming out when touched or jarred. These areas are more like rips and tears but there are a few holes. He would like to keep the door if he could patch the spots, and spray some paint on it. Does anyone know how to patch it? |
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Not sure what Aaronjohn is on about. Car body filler is awesome for that kind of repair. Use some sort of flexible filler blade to minimise the amount of sanding. If the insulation has been damaged that much you may want to use a little window and door sprayfoam, or get some styrofoam and put it in, ball by ball. How large are the holes? If just claw mark-sized, then fixing, kilz primer then topcoat(s) should do it. |
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