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How Inventory Optimization Opens Pathways to Profitability
Inventory optimization—the process of scientifically determining the right inventory levels across the supply chain—has never been easy. But advanced tools now available are enabling companies to do the job faster, more accurately, and with greater business impact. In fact, industry leaders are finding that IO can drive greater profitability through lower inventories, better fill rates, and ultimately a more satisfied customer.
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Over the past decade, inventory optimization has moved from a theoretical construct relegated to classroom instruction to a practical tool that improves corporate profitability. The underlying drivers of inventory, in the form of demand and supply variability, are common to all supply chains, making inventory optimization (IO) applicable to every industry.
Underscoring the broad applicability of IO, many diverse businesses have realized dramatic improvements in supply chain performance including:
Case New Holland executed a postponement strategy that reduced total inventory by 20 percent for its line of compact tractors.(1)
Hewlett Packard achieved more than $130 million in total inventory savings.(2)
Microsoft increased inventory turns 18-20 percent while simultaneously increasing fill rates by 6-7 percent.(3)
Procter & Gamble reduced inventory levels by $100 million for its beauty division.(4)
These results are not isolated incidents. For companies that implement IO, a 10 to 30 percent reduction in total inventory is common. This article documents the transition to IO, what companies have gained from implementing inventory optimization, and how these tools can be integrated into any company. I will also review real world examples of IO in action, keys to success, and questions you need to ask yourself before moving ahead with an IO initiative.
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How Did We Get Here?
Four factors have contributed to the growth of inventory optimization in the past decade: the success of operations-focused improvement initiatives; the brute-force reconciliation of supply and demand; the focus on metrics for supply chain performance; and the existence of commercial IO software.
First, IO is built on the foundation established by successful business process reengineering, lean manufacturing, and six sigma projects. While these initiatives are different, and each worthy of their own article, they are relevant to IO because they establish a rigorous relationship between supply chain inputs and outputs. Further, they provide an excellent foundation that can accelerate the realized benefits from inventory optimization.
Second, companies have worked hard to remove gross imbalances between supply and demand. By making capacity levels and material purchase plans more tightly match projected demand, there is greater emphasis on properly setting inventory targets. Following the global financial crisis and the subsequent slashing of inventory across the board, there is no longer an excess of production capacity or stockpile of leftover inventory builds to satisfy fluctuations in demand. Now, one has to meet these fluctuations with scientifically derived inventory targets, which requires proven IO software to optimize the end-to-end supply chain.
Third, there has been significant adoption of metrics, like service level and cash-to-cash cycle time, that require a supply chain orientation and can only be improved with tools like IO.
Fourth, proven software capable of solving complex IO problems across global supply chain networks is now commercially available. As opposed to deterministic optimization methods that underlie advanced planning and scheduling (APS) systems, the underlying mathematics for inventory problems required the development of stochastic nonlinear integer solution methods. While this IO math is different than APS math, it is not industry specific; thus, the same software can be deployed across different industries to optimally set and manage inventory positions.
What is Inventory Optimization?
Inventory optimization was born as an advanced algorithmic approach to understanding and quantifying the propagation of demand and supply uncertainties across a multi-level supply chain. Today it is considered a core competency at both mid-size and Fortune 500 companies in a wide range of industries. IO has proven to be a sustainable process to free up millions of dollars in working capital by reducing inventory without damaging service levels. Unlike traditional "binge-and-purge" cycles of overproduction followed by brute-force reductions, IO enables companies to achieve savings and increase inventory turns while driving more profit to the bottom line.
In short, inventory optimization scientifically determines the minimum inventory targets across the entire supply chain network subject to constraints established by the planner.
Different Ways Companies Set Inventory Targets Today
Companies today set inventory targets in various ways. The methods used can be viewed along the following continuum from completely ad hoc and heuristic to globally optimal: (1) no formal targets; (2) employ rules of thumb; (3) use single-stage calculations; and (4) use multi-echelon software tools.
At the simplest level, some companies still do not set formal inventory targets. Instead, they manage inventory by padding the schedule and making items earlier than required. For all but the simplest of products, this safety-time approach is woefully inadequate. A more prevalent approach is to employ a rule-of-thumb target. This involves setting a days of supply (DOS) coverage target for every item. While DOS rules of thumb are easy to understand, they have two serious limitations. First, DOS is based on average demand and not variability. Second, DOS approaches are forward looking whereas inventory targets are actually backward looking because they are an outcome of production decisions made in earlier periods.
Exhibit 1 presents a real-world illustration of the problem of forward-looking targets at Microsoft. In this case, a forward DOS target reduces inventory too soon because in the peak period of demand the DOS target is already looking forward to the off-peak period. As such, the DOS target lowers inventory levels before the peak sales period, which results in lost sales. The DOS target also builds inventory up while demand is still in the low period. So not only do service levels suffer but overall inventory levels for the year are higher than they should be when compared to the results from IO. (More details on this particular issue and the associated Microsoft example can be found in Neale and Willems, 2008.)
Single stage calculations are an improvement over rules of thumb—but they still have significant limitations. First, it is more appropriate to think of these models as calculating vs. optimizing. By only looking at a single item at a single location, the resulting inventory problem often reduces to a straightforward calculation. Because the single item is being looked at in isolation, it does not consider its effect on the rest of the network. If you open an inventory textbook, you are looking at the single stage calculation that may be supported in a typical APS system. So while the mistake is understandable, it is in fact a mistake to think of these single stage solutions as performing a true optimization. In reality, these solutions simplify the problem to the extent that a single calculation can be performed. This is an improvement over DOS rules of thumb to be sure, but falls significantly short of optimally solving the inventory problem.
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Multi-echelon inventory optimization software represents the state of the art approach to optimize inventory levels across the end to end supply chain. These models have significantly more degrees of freedom because they do not assume, like single stage models do, that a specific location must hold inventory. Modeling multiple stages allows other types of inventory, including cycle stock and prebuild along with safety stock due to time phased demands, to now be properly modeled across the supply chain. This seemingly small change opens up tremendous opportunity to improve supply chain performance and lower total inventory.
How does Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization Work?
When modeling a multi-echelon inventory problem, the objective is to determine the right inventory targets across the entire supply chain. Even if we restrict our attention to a simplistic five-stage supply chain where all the stages form a serial line with Stage 1 as the raw material and Stage 5 as fulfilling customer demand, there are many possible ways to deploy inventory across the supply chain.
For example, Exhibit 2 depicts a common inventory strategy encountered in practice. In this picture, triangles denote safety stock held at a stage. In Exhibit 2, every stage holds a decoupling safety stock. This allows the actions of a stage to be isolated from other stages. This might be called a "sprinkle-it-everywhere" inventory strategy. However, experience shows that each stage tends to grow its inventories over time, which results in a suboptimal overall inventory strategy from a cost perspective because it does not pool across locations. Instead, each location covers its own lead time.
Exhibit 3 represents another extreme. It is pooling in its most extreme form for this simple supply chain. Here, only Stage 5 holds safety stock. This forces the inventory at Stage 5 to increase, versus the situation in Exhibit 2, because Stage 5 must now cover the lead times for all five stages. This removes the safety stock from the other stages because Stage 5 is covering all the lead time in the supply chain. In most real-world cases, this is too much pooling and is problematic because we are now holding safety stock at its most expensive and most differentiated point. So while Exhibit 3 is an interesting thought exercise, it is very unlikely to be the optimal safety stock policy in reality. In fact, it could end up being a "get-me-fired" strategy.
In Exhibit 4 we will assume Stage 3 is the big value add step in the supply chain. In this scenario, a decoupling safety stock at Stage 2 covers the lead times of Stages 1 and 2 while Stage 5 covers Stages 3, 4 and 5. This is an example of what could be the optimal safety stock policy where, through IO, we have placed the right amount of inventory at separate locations to reduce working capital and ensure service levels.
Inventory optimization models at the SKU location level to identify where it is best to hold inventory. This representation is often more granular than how non-supply-chain-people think of the problem. For example, the lay person might think of inventory held at the distribution center as one pile of inventory. Yet the supply chain team has to think of inventory in all its possible states in the DC, because inventory can be held in all three states—for example, raw inventory that has not been processed, packed inventory that has been kitted with other items, and packed inventory that is dedicated to a major channel customer. To produce a feasible inventory plan, all three locations need to be modeled for the purpose of setting tactical inventory targets that can be uploaded into the planning system on a weekly or monthly basis.
It is important to recognize that the inputs to an IO tool can be very modest. The IO data requirements for an inventory optimization tools can focus mainly on the limited list below:
Characterization of demand and its volatility.
Service level target.
Stage inventory holding cost.
Stage lead time.
Examples of additional data that can help improve the quality of the result from the IO model are estimates of lead time variability, constraints on delivery performance for stages, and the underlying review periods for different portions of the supply chain.
With the data in the areas listed above, an IO tool evaluates all the inventory stocking levels across the supply chain that satisfy the desired service level requirements. The stocking levels that produce the minimum inventory cost are the optimal inventory policy and the result from the IO tool.
What Do the Results of Inventory Optimization Look Like?
Farasyn et. al (2011) document the application of IO tools at Procter & Gamble.5 Exhibit 5 is a simplified IO model for one product family (liquid makeup) within the total North America Cosmetics supply chain. The chain consists of 8 unique raw materials, 10 blank uncolored work-in-process materials (WIPs), 24 colored WIP materials, 150 packaging materials, 18 intermediate subassemblies (partially assembled finished goods), and 75 finished goods that move from finished packaging on to U.S. and Canadian distribution centers and ultimately to retail customers. Intermediate subassemblies also must satisfy demand for promotional items. In total, the model contains 500 stages (a SKU at a location) and over 700 arcs (bill of materials between SKU locations).
The model incorporated existing service policies (for example, service level target of 99.5 percent case fill rate), material lead times (generally ranging from 7 days to 8 weeks), production times (1-2 days), review periods (7-28 days), transportation and movement times (1-7 days), quality assurance durations (1-5 days), and costs added at each location. Demand characterization (mean and standard deviation) for each finished good SKU was based on the past 13 weeks of actual shipments and forecast, and the future 13 weeks of forecast.
The application of multi-echelon inventory optimization to the Cosmetics liquid makeup portion of its supply chain yielded a change in level and placement of inventory safety stocks while ensuring the target 99.5 percent service level was protected.
Exhibit 6 provides an overview of the change in safety stock days on hand across the four major safety stock inventory echelons—materials, work-in-process, finished goods in the U.S. distribution center, and finished goods in the Canadian distribution center. Safety stock days decreased in materials and finished goods, and increased in work-in-process.
Most importantly, the total investment in safety stock for this supply chain was reduced by 17 percent, as the dollar drop in finished goods and materials far outweighed the dollar increase in work-in-process. This 17 percent reduction in safety stock equates to a 5 percent total inventory reduction for this product family's supply chain.
Similar multi-echelon results were achieved by a mid-sized (less than $250 million volume) manufacturer. The manufacturer operates two distinct businesses. One is an import business where the firm operates as a traditional distributor; in the other business, product is manufactured in a two-echelon supply chain consisting of raw materials and finished goods in North America. After IO was applied, at an aggregate level raw material inventory was increased allowing finished goods to decrease. In fact, the total inventory reduction exceeded 19 percent.
Exhibit 7 breaks down the results by SKU. The SKUs are rank ordered by volume, with SKU 1 representing the highest volume product. The inventory results have all been converted into periods of supply. The existing DOS rule of thumb employed either four, five, or six weeks of supply for every SKU. The results from IO are completely indicative of a typical implementation. Namely, a few SKUs actually increase their inventory levels. This is true for SKUs 3, 4, 6, and 11. In fact, when this result was first shared with the planning team, IO was made to look psychic because these were the SKUs that were on the planner's hot list. But IO is not psychic. IO just sets inventory level based on demand and supply variability, and we all know that some products are more variable than others.
For all the other SKUs, IO recommends lower inventory levels. Again, this should make intuitive sense. Planners manage a hot list on a daily basis. That hot list cannot be infinitely long. If it was, then they would have too little of everything and that can only happen if there is grossly insufficient capacity. So the fact that planners can manage the hot list means, by definition, there must be too much inventory for the other SKUs (because they are not on the hot list that week). Exactly how much excess inventory for the other SKUs depends on its parameters. So while the SKUs differ from company to company, the overall result in Exhibit 7 is common to all companies that implement IO.
Inventory Optimization Best Practices
Setting aside more generic best practices associated with any improvement initiative, there are two specific practices that are critical to successful inventory optimization.
Break Inventory Into its Components
In order to optimize inventory levels, it is necessary to recognize that inventory is not one monolithic quantity. It can be broken into components that exist for assignable reasons. Some of the most important categories of inventory include anticipatory stock, cycle stock, early arrival stock, marketing stock, obsolete stock, pipeline stock, prebuilt stock, and safety stock.
Cycle stock is the inventory due to production frequencies. Early arrival stock is due to uncertainties in coordinated delivery times. Marketing stock is additional inventory placed at customer locations to stimulate demand or satisfy retailer shelf-space requirements. Obsolete stock is inventory of unsalable product that is often left on the books for accounting and finance purposes. Pipeline stock is based on the lead times in the supply chain. Prebuild stock is inventory built ahead of demand due to capacity limitations. There are several classes of safety stock each specific to a type of variability; be it forecast variability, supply variability, or manufacturing variability.
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Our list does not fully enumerate all types of inventory. For example, consignment inventories may warrant a separate designation (although they can be considered marketing stock) while some manufacturing processes require curing or another delay step (although they can be considered pipeline stock). Also, promotion stock (in the form of PDQs) have characteristics that make them similar yet different from marketing stock.
It is worth noting that, particularly when it comes to reporting inventory metrics to senior management, it is not necessary to track all of these categories. However, it is necessary to define categories that "move the needle" in terms of supply chain performance. A good rule of thumb is to measure any category that comprises more than 20 percent of total inventory.
Breaking inventory into categories is important for three reasons.
1. Not all inventory is of equal importance to the business. If inventory is not broken into its components, it cannot be tracked or improved. It would not be uncommon for a mid-sized company to have more than 100 million dollars in inventory. If it is just all reported as one giant bucket of costs, then it cannot be improved.
2. The business drivers of the different categories of inventory differ so they cannot all be improved the same way or with the same speed. Different math is required for each category. In particular, the safety stock component, because it is driven by variability in both demand and supply, is the hardest component to solve without a proven multi-echelon inventory optimization model.
3. If a management edict comes down on the first day of the quarter to cut inventory by 10 percent within a month, only safety stock (and possibly cycle stock) can be reduced quickly. All of the other categories (such as prebuild, marketing or obsolete stock) are driven by other factors that cannot be easily or quickly changed—if they can be changed at all. So a 10 percent inventory reduction initiative could translate into a 30 percent safety stock reduction requirement. (These last two points emphasize why IO has grown in importance over the past decade as companies responded to increased volatility in the global marketplace.)
Create a Virtuous Cycle of Inventory Optimization
Inventory optimization operates at both tactical and strategic planning levels, and a virtuous cycle of inventory optimization is created when they operate in concert. At the tactical level, inventory targets are set weekly or monthly based on demand and supply variability. Each time the system is run, it updates its inventory targets based on the updated demand and supply information. So unlike a DOS rule of thumb or a single stage calculation that is run in an off-line mode, the IO system automates the creation of inventory targets on a weekly or monthly cycle. These updated targets free the planning team to focus on only the truly problematic SKUs, because the vast majority of the SKUs will be handled as part of the normal planning process.
At the strategic level, the current instance of the tactical solution is immediately available to answer any questions that arise. In effect, strategic questions that could not be addressed in the past can now be answered "for free" because the data is readily available and the outcome can be implemented in the next run of the tactical solution. In my experience, people vastly underestimate the frequency with which these strategic inventory-related supply chain decisions are made. They are not just made at new product introduction, for example, but every time the product is introduced in every channel in every market in every geography.
Is Inventory Optimization Right for Me?
The simple truth is that inventory optimization is applicable to all but the simplest supply chains. But whether IO is an initiative worth pursuing depends on the relative importance of inventory and service levels versus the other initiatives the company can pursue. To help answer whether inventory optimization is worth pursuing, it is helpful to consider the following questions.
Have you been tasked to:
Reduce total inventory by 10 percent or more?
Implement a postponement strategy?
Increase service levels without increasing inventory?
Adjust inventory levels to reflect product-family profitability?
Launch new products more frequently or cost effectively?
Source raw materials or finished goods abroad?
Consolidate manufacturing or distribution operations?
Update inventory targets more frequently than once a year?
Does your supply chain:
Experience significant bullwhip effects?
Experience seasonality or end of quarter push?
Consist of more than one location or channel?
Answering yes to any of these questions is a good indication that IO could improve the performance of your supply chain.
In less than a decade, inventory optimization has emerged as a proven technology to drastically reduce total inventory levels while maintaining or improving customer service levels. These competing objectives are satisfied by scientifically accounting for the variability inherent across the entire supply chain and establishing a virtuous cycle of inventory optimization that operates at both the near-term tactical and strategic levels. Born as an advanced algorithmic approach to understanding and quantifying the propagation of demand and supply uncertainties across a multi-level supply chain, inventory optimization is now recognized by leading companies as a core competency critical to their success.
1 Neale and Willems (2009)
2 Billington et al (2003)
3 Neale and Willems (2009)
4 Farasynm et al. (2011)
5 This section is taken in its entirety from the section labeled "Leveraging North America Cosmetics' Success Across the Beauty & Grooming GBU" in Farasynm et al. (2011)
Billington, C., G. Callioni, B. Crane, J. D. Ruark, J. Unruh Rapp, T. White, and S. P. Willems. 2004. "Accelerating the Profitability of Hewlett-Packard's Supply Chains." Interfaces. 34(1) 59-72.
Farasynm I., S. Humair, J. I. Kahn, J. J. Neale, O. Rosen, J. D. Ruark, W. Tarlton, W. Van de Velde, G. Wegryn, and S. P. Willems. 2011. "Inventory Optimization at Procter & Gamble: Achieving Real Benefits through User Adoption of Inventory Tools," Interfaces 41(1).
Neale, J. J., S. P. Willems. 2009. "Managing Inventory in Supply Chains with Nonstationary Demand," Interfaces 39(5) 388-399.
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|Manual Removal Includes Following Steps
|Step 1
|Start PC In Safe Mode
|Step 2
|End Manyoffer.com malware process in Task Manager
|Step 3
|Remove Manyoffer.com From Web Browsers
|Step 4
|To Remove Manyoffer.com from control Panel
|Step 5
|Remove Malicious Registry Files
|Step 6
|Reset Browser Settings
Step 1: Start PC in Safe Mode
- Close all running program and restart your system.
- Continuously press F8 button to open Boot menu.
- You can see three different boot options in Boo menu.
- Use arrow key and choose "Safe Mode With Networking" option and press Enter.
Step 2 : End Manyoffer.com malware process in Task Manager
- Press "Ctrl+Shift+Esc" keys to open Windows Task Manager.
- Click on Process Tab > find all malicious processes and then click the End Process tab.
Step 3: Remove Manyoffer.com From Web Browsers
From Google Chrome
- Click (⋮) icon to open Chrome menu on your browser toolbar.
- Click on Tools and then go to Extensions.
- Now select malicious extensions installed in your browser.
- Make sure you are deleting only malicious and useless extensions and click the Trash icon.
- Click Remove tab in the conformation window if ask.
From Mozilla Firefox
- Click (☰) menu button and choose Add-ons.
- Click on Extensions panel from the left side of Add-ons Manager tab.
- Select all unwanted and malicious extensions.
- Click on Disable to Remove button of Manyoffer.com.
- Select Restart now if asked.
From Internet Explorer
- Open your browser, press Tools button, and then press Manage add-ons.
- Click on Toolbars and Extensions from left side of the window.
- Select all malicious extension related with Manyoffer.com.
- Click Remove button to delete this malicious extension from your browser.
Reset Edge Browser Homepage
Well, Edge browser does not have extension hence you should reset the search engine and browser homepage to remove malicious extension from Microsoft Edge browser.
- Click on More (…) icon on the address bar, then select Settings.
- Select View advanced settings option.
- Click on "Search in the address bar with", then input the search engine you like
- Now choose you desired search engine and click on Add as default.
Step 4 : To Remove Manyoffer.com Malware and suspicious Programs from control Panel
From Windows XP
- Click on Start button > Select Control Panel.
- Click Add or Remove Program option.
- Find all malicious program including Manyoffer.com > Select Remove.
Windows 7
- Go to Start Menu and Click on Control Panel option.
- In Control Panel open Programs section and click on Uninstall a program option.
- Select Manyoffer.com and then click on Uninstall tab.
Windows 8
- Click on Windows Start button and go to Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a Program under Program section.
- Select Manyoffer.com virus and click Uninstall.
Windows 10
- Go to Start Menu and search for Control Panel.
- Now Click on Programs and Feature option.
- Select all undesirable applications including Manyoffer.com and hit Uninstall tab.
- Finally yet to confirm if confirmation window appears and restart your PC.
Step 5:- Delete Malicious Registry Files From Registry Entries
- Click Win + R keys simultaneously to open Run window.
- Enter "regedit" and click OK button.
- Search and delete all malicious registry files.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msseces.exe "Debugger" = 'svchost.exe'
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect" = '0′
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect" = '0′
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore "DisableSR " = '1′
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\ekrn.exe "Debugger" = 'svchost.exe'
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msascui.exe "Debugger" = 'svchost.exe'
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "3948550101″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "xas"
Note :- Make sure you are deleting malicious registry files only as removing any important registry files and can make your system complete unusable..
|Reset Browser Settings After Removing Manyoffer.com
Reset Google Chrome Settings
- Open Chrome browser and click on (⋮) icon.
- Click on the Setting option from drop down list.
- Select Show Advance Settings option.
- In the end of Advanced Setting page you can see Reset Settings button.
- Click on Reset button and all unwanted modifications made by Manyoffer.com.
Reset Mozilla Firefox Browser To Delete Manyoffer.com
- Open Firefox, and click on (☰) icon.
- Next click on the Help option from the drop down menu.
- Hit "Troubleshooting Information" option.
- Click on "Refresh Firefox" button.
- Now click "Refresh Firefox" if confirmation is required.
Reset Microsoft Edge Homepage
- Open your Edge browser and select More (…) on the address bar.
- Now click on Settings option.
- Click Clear Browsing Data and check following Options.
- Browsing History
- Cookies And Saved Websites
- Cached Data Files
- In the end click on Clear button and restart your browser.
Reset Internet Explorer To Delete Manyoffer.com
- Open IE browser and Click on "Tools" menu.
- Choose "Internet option" from the drop down menu.
- Select "Advanced tab" and click on "Reset" button.
- Check out the "Delete personal settings" box and click on "Reset" button.
- Click on "Close" button and restart your browser.
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|B.A. - International Business and Management / M.S. - Sport Administration
In the past two seasons Gregory Lott has reinvigorated the United States Merchant Marine Academy men's and women's cross country and track & field programs. After taking the helm in July 2010, the Mariners have seen their highest finishes across the board since joining the Landmark Conference. Coach Lott has pieced together an exceptional coaching staff, including a full-time assistant and multiple part-time assistants. The outdoor track facility has received a complete overhaul giving the Mariners one of the area's best tracks around.
All aspects of the program have seen drastic improvements. In Lott's first season, he led a significant turnaround with the indoor track program. Both the men and women saw an 11-fold improvement in their point output as the men vaulted from last place to 3rd overall. Lott was awarded the 2011 Landmark Conference Indoor Coach of the year for his efforts. The 2012 track season saw Merchant Marine significantly improve the point total once again as the men has proved themselves to be a contender within the conference coming just three points away from a second place finish. Athletes under his direction are literally re-writing the record books as 49 Academy Records (10 on the men's side and 39 on the women's) have already gone down in just two seasons. Landmark Champions have been crowed in Men's High Jump, Men's Long Jump, Men's 100m, Men's 200m, Men's 400m and in the Men's 4x400m relay. The Mariners crowned their first ever female Landmark Conference Champion in 2012 when Tara Mulligan won the Hammer Throw. Two Freshmen, Tomas Sanchez and Chris Cook, were named ALL-ECAC in the 2012 Indoor Track season for their "Top 8" performances in the 500m (1:05.52) and the Long Jump (22'4.5") at the Eastern Conference Athletic Championships (ECAC), both of which were Academy Records. Chris Cook was also named Landmark Conference Newcomer of the Year. Success at the ECACs continued outdoors with Chris Cook (LJ – 7.09m, 23'4") and Kevin Stapf (JT – 59.08m, 193'10") earning All-ECAC honors. The men's 4x400m relay also garnered All-ECAC honors en route to breaking the Landmark Conference Record with a time of 3:18.83. In Cross Country both the men and women were crowned Maritime Cup Champions in Lott's first season. The 2011 season saw an influx of talent as five of the "Top 7" on the women's side and seven of the "Top 10" on the men's side were Freshmen. Both programs improved conference and regional finishes in 2011.
The teams' success has continued in the classroom and regiment as well. In the past two years, members of the team have been both the Senior Class President and the class Valedictorian. In addition to earning more Academic Star Awards at the Academy than any other program over the same span, team members have won several other major academic awards (Julie Berke Achievement Award, Thomas LeBlanc Scholar Athlete Award (twice), and the ECAC Robbins Scholar-Athlete Award). The Men's Cross Country program was also awarded the Dean's Award for the highest team GPA. Additional major team awards at the Academy over the past two years include the Julie Burke Female Athlete of the Year Award and the CPT Perry Walter Team Advisor of the Year.
Before coming to Kings Point, Lott was the Assistant Coach for
Sprints, Relays and the Pole Vault for both the men's and women's
track and field squads at the United States Military Academy. While
at West Point, he also served as Recruiting Coordinator for the
cross country and track & field programs. Lott coached West
Point athletes to several impressive feats. Hallie Huggins and Kaci
Clark broke Academy records in the Pole Vault six times culminating
in a jump of 12'2". Ebony Thomas broke a Patriot
Conference Championship Meet record five times and set an Academy
record in the Indoor 200m, running at a clip of 24.50 seconds. The
West Point men's 4x100m relay team was conference champion in
2009 and 2010 coming just .01 seconds off the Patriot League
Championship Meet Record with a time of 41.07. Overall, the men's
track & field team won three consecutive conference titles, had
an undefeated record against its arch-rival, Navy and won the 2010
All-Military Meet defeating Air Force, Navy, The Citadel, VMI,
USMMA and Coast Guard.
Prior to West Point, Lott spent two years running professionally under the tutelage of U.S. Olympic team coach Brooks Johnson. He competed on the European Circuit in the 200m and 400m and had Top-10 international finishes in France, Belgium, Germany and Italy. In 2007, he ran a leg of the 4x400-meter relay for the U.S. team at The International Freedom and Friendship Games. Concurrent to his own racing, Lott orchestrated the pole-vaulting program at the National Training Center (NTC) in Clermont, Florida and coached five district champions, three regional champions and two state runner-up finishes at the high school level.
From 2005-06, Lott served as a graduate assistant coach at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Ind. with a primary responsibility for the sprints, hurdles and relays. Athletes he coached achieved great heights with 39 personal best performances, 20 marks on the "Top-Five All-Time List" at Valpo and five school records. While at Valpo, Lott also completed coursework towards a Master of Business Administration degree.
Lott began his collegiate coaching career at Buffalo State College while completing his master's degree in sport administration at Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y. Working with the Bengal sprinters and hurdlers, he led Richard Harris to a first place finish in the 110-meter hurdles at the 2005 Division III Outdoor National Championships, becoming the first track and field athlete at Buffalo State to win a national championship since 1986.
Lott earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Business and Management from Dickinson College in 2004. He captained the Red Devils' track and field team for two seasons and left Dickinson as one of the most-decorated athletes in school history. His accolades as a collegiate athlete include being named the Most Valuable Athlete on Dickinson's track team twice, being named the Most Outstanding Track & Field Athlete of the Centennial Conference twice, earning the 2004 McAndrew's Award (Most Outstanding Athlete at Dickinson College, representing all sports), winning the Joseph Ducharme Memorial Leadership Award for inspiring his team after coming back from a seemingly career-ending injury and being named the 2004 Mid-East Regional Athlete of the Year. Lott was a five event NCAA National Qualifier finishing as high as second in the nation at 200m, tabbing him an All-American.
Lott and his wife Melanie currently reside in Port Washington, NY.


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Game 4 is Friday night in Ottawa.
Coach Guy Boucher has insisted on an extremely defensive style from the day he took over the Senators last May. It took until December for the team to fully embrace it, but that's when everyone knew where they needed to be on the ice and what their responsibility was.
"At this level, you do what the coach says," said Hoffman, who also played for Boucher in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. "We're workers here. We don't decide which system is put in place. We just have to go out there and execute it and do our job.
"That's what we're here to do."
Hosting their first Eastern Conference final game in 10 years, the Sens came out flying. Hoffman got it going by capitalizing on Turris' shot that bounced awkwardly wide of the goal. Hoffman stuffed the shot, standing to the left of the goal, just between the post and right pad of Fleury.
Brassard got the first of three when he snatched Erik Karlsson's dump-in and swung wide of the Pittsburgh goal. Bobby Ryan eventually gained possession down low and found Methot with a crafty pass. While his initial shot was stopped, the rebound bounced off Penguins defenseman Ian Cole and into the net. It was the second goal of the playoffs for Methot after he went scoreless in 68 games during the regular season.
Brassard added his fourth of the postseason less than two minutes later, taking advantage of the Senators' offensive zone pressure before slipping behind the aging Mark Streit for the shot that beat Fleury.
"We're not bothered by what's said about our team," Brassard said. "Our focus is on what we need to do."
Streit was making his playoff debut for the increasingly battered Pens, who lost Justin Schultz and Bryan Rust to upper-body injuries in Game 2. Pittsburgh, which did get Trevor Daley back from injury, also remained without injured winger Patric Hornqvist as well as No. 1 defenseman Kris Letang, who's out for the season with a neck ailment.
Apparent miscommunication between the 39-year-old Streit and Cole led to Cole throwing the puck away shortly before Brassard's goal.
Ottawa, looking crisp and confident, finished the flurry 24 seconds after Brassard's goal, with Smith beating Fleury on a wrap-around, chasing Fleury from the game.
"It's tough when you give up that many goals in the first period you don't really give yourself or your team a chance in the game," Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. "It wasn't like we gave up a lot of scoring chances, we didn't, but they all seemed to go in the net.
"For me, the takeaway is you can't lose the first period by four goals and think you're going to win."
In question now is whether Sullivan turns to Murray, who helped deliver the Pens a Cup last season and was excellent in his first full NHL season, for Game 4 or goes back to Fleury.
"I just think we've got to be more ready to play from the drop of the puck," said Sullivan, who added that he hadn't yet given thought to who would start in goal.
The crowd was delirious throughout the one-sided win and all the more so when their team got under the skin of the Penguins. At one point late in the first, Dion Phaneuf levelled former Maple Leafs teammate Phil Kessel. Ryan came by with a shove seconds later as Kessel waved his stick in the air at the Sens winger in apparent frustration.
Towel-waving fans chanted Kessel's name and later cheered as Mark Stone mixed it up with Evgeni Malkin.


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YORK, PA - The York College men's basketball team used another all-around solid game to post a 72-63 Capital Athletic Conference win over Hood College on Saturday afternoon at Wolf Gymnasium. The victory is the sixth straight for the Spartans as they improve to 13-7 overall and 8-3 in the CAC. The Blazers fall to 12-8 overall and 4-7 in the league.
The game started off slowly on the offensive end as neither team broke into the scoring column in the first 2:34 of play. Spartan junior Jeremy Skoloda split a pair of free throws followed by a Justin Stone lay up to get the scoring started. With the Spartans up 8-6 after an Adrien Strough lay up, the Spartans fashioned a methodical 12-2 run, kicking their lead to 12 at 20-8.
The Spartan lead grew to a half-high 15 on a pair of Paul Kouvaris free throws with 3:32 left in the half. The Spartans then went ice cold from the field while the Blazers got a little something going prior to the break. Hood went on a 9-0 spurt as the Spartan lead was trimmed to just six. The Spartans got back a little momentum just before the half as Julian Watson hit a tough runner in the lane with five seconds left, giving York a 33-25 lead at the intermission.
York came out of the break and scored on consecutive possessions as Mo Oursler canned a three and Watson hit a jumper, extending the lead to 13. After a series of back and forth possessions, the Spartans put together a 7-0 spurt, pushing the lead to 16 at 49-33.
The York advantage remained in double figures until late in the game when a pair of Jordan Diggs free throws cut the Spartan lead to single digits at 58-49 with just 3:40 remaining. That began a run of seeing the Blazers cut into the Spartan lead only to have York answer back from the free throw line.
The Spartans were not exactly perfect from the stripe in the later stages of the game but they made enough to preserve the win. The Blazers trimmed the Spartan lead to five on a Diggs lay up with 52 seconds left in regulation. Oursler then drained both of his attempts at the line after getting fouled, pushing York's lead back to seven. The Green and White got a stop on the ensuing Hood possession and junior Mitch Kemp hit three of four free throws over the final 33 seconds to salt away the win.
Watson paced the Spartans as the junior point guard tallied 18 points in addition to grabbing four rebounds. Watson gave the Blazers problems all day when he penetrated into the heart of the Hood defense. He was 7-for-12 from the floor and 4-for-4 at the free throw line. Kouvaris was honored prior to the game for reaching the 1,000-career point milestone earlier this year and he chipped in with 17 points and five rebounds for the Spartans. He was 6-for-10 from the floor and 5-for-6 at the charity stripe. Junior Todd Maciejewski recorded his third career double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds. Maciejewski was a sharp 4-for-6 from the floor and 3-for-7 from the free throw line. Oursler was the fourth Spartan in double figures with 12 points.
Stone paced Hood as the forward had 12 points, seven rebounds, and a game-high six steals. He was 5-for-11 from the floor but just 2-for-8 from the free throw line. Ramon Smith came off the bench to contribute 11 points in 14 minutes.
The Spartans shot 46.9% from the floor in the win. York struggled from distance, only making 4-of-14 from deep. The Green and White finished the game shooting a respectable 71% from the free throw line.
Hood shot almost an identical 46.3% from the floor while they made just 2-of-10 from beyond the arc. The Blazers, much like they have been all year, were hampered by poor free throw shooting as they converted a mere 52.4% of their 21 attempts from the charity stripe.
The Spartans forced 20 Blazer turnovers, turning them into 24 points.
The Spartans now take to the road to face St. Mary's College in a key conference contest. Tip time at St. Mary's City is set for 8:00 pm.
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Thursday, 08 April 2010 07:47 AM
In the end, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was forced to admit that he didn't have the power to shut down city services. But his threat to do so drew attention to the desperate fiscal situation facing Los Angeles.
Villaraigosa proposed closing city departments that don't make money, such as parks and libraries, for two days a week starting Monday. He later backed down from his hardline stance over the budget crisis, conceding that he would need the City Council's approval and requesting $20 million from the power utility to keep the city solvent.
It was a "plan of last resort," said his deputy chief of staff, Matt Szabo.
"We understand that we need to work with the council if, in fact, we would need to implement such a plan," Szabo said. "But we have to have a final contingency plan that we're not going to run out of money."
The statements capped a day of ramped-up pressure on the mayor from the City Council, the controller and labor unions after he announced Tuesday that he was going to furlough about 22,000 city employees two days a week because the city will run out of cash next month.
The worst economic decline since the Depression, a steep drop in tax revenue and burgeoning expenses have led to the city's current dire financial situation. The city has a $212 million budget deficit that some have estimated could grow to $1 billion in four years without drastic cuts.
The City Council's chief legislative analyst, Gerry Miller, told councilors Wednesday that the mayor cannot shut down city services without council approval.
"The mayor does not have the unilateral authority to do that," Miller said.
The city also would be violating labor contracts, which stipulate no furloughs, said Bob Schoonover, president of the Service Employees International Union Local 721, which represents about 10,000 city employees.
Villaraigosa and the council are in a political tug-of-war over rate hikes requested by the Department of Water and Power, which is controlled by the mayor.
After the council approved a smaller rate hike to cover increased costs of coal and natural gas, the DWP reneged on a previous promise to transfer $73 million to the city's general fund, saying without the higher rate hike, it could not afford to give the money.
The council responded by asking the mayor to press the DWP for the funds since he appoints the utility's board of commissioners and general manager, but he proposed a service shutdown.
On Wednesday the former DWP commission president Nick Patsaouras filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court to force the utility to fulfill its obligation to make the transfer. The suit states that the DWP already has an eight percent surplus, enough to provide the money. Patsaouras stepped down from the commission in October 2008.
Villaraigosa went on a media blitz Wednesday, appearing on CNN, Fox Business News and local radio to explain his shutdown move. "On May 5, we'll be out of cash," he said on CNN. "If I don't do these actions now, we won't be able to pay the bills."
He later announced he would ask the DWP for $20 million but warned that its board may not approve the transfer.
Szabo said the DWP may be more likely to approve the transfer if it can reach a compromise on the rate hike with the city council. He called the council's smaller rate hike "a reasonable compromise" but added that DWP must have flexibility to adjust rates in the future in line with its costs.
The council and controller also ratcheted up pressure on the DWP.
Controller Wendy Greuel announced an audit of the utility to verify its claim that it was financially unable to give the city $73 million.
"I want to take the politics out of this process and provide an independent review of the DWP's finances," she said.
Meanwhile, the council passed a series of motions to wrest control of the DWP away from the mayor.
The council wants to ask voters next year to give it the power to remove the DWP general manager and commissioners. The council also wants voters to decide if it can control rate increases and the DWP budget.
The city has started to feel the effects of its financial trouble. Moody's Investor Service on Wednesday slashed the city's credit rating on its debt obligations to "Aa3" from "Aa2" with a negative outlook that means the rating could be lowered further. "Aa3" is Moody's fourth-highest rating and is considered high-quality.
Another quagmire looms. Greuel said the city would not be able to make payroll May 5 and requested the council transfer $90 million from the city's reserves to see it through the end of the fiscal year. Using that money, however, would drain the city's contingency fund.
Szabo said Villaraigosa will continue to seek solutions.
"The mayor has said that he is not going to allow the city to run out of money, nor is he going to ask city employees to come to work if he knows we don't have the funds to pay them," Szabo said.
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Pirates, Ghosts, Puzzles and tons of Humour: developer Autumn Moon Entertainment is putting together a promising mix of gaming ingredients for their new PC adventure game Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island.
All three playable characters recently turned into ghosts and are now looking for chances to get back into their living bodies.
Being a ghost is a curse: they are now invisible and inaudible to the living. There's a lot more ghosts can take advantage of, but with that, the three ghost pirates have also to deal with a lot of troubling hurdles: As ghosts, for instance, they can't move physical objects, can't talk to living humans and can sometimes struggle at other things we take for granted. However there is a lot ghosts can take advantage of – their special ghostly powers more than make up for this.
This mixture allows many innovative adventure gaming puzzles that will challenge the players of Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island: How can you interact with human beings, when nobody can see or even hear you? Are there other ways to communicate with the living? That's the kind of questions players are asking themselves in order to solve the game's puzzles.
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Alexander Skarsgard Screams BEST VILLIAN
True Blood hunk Alexander Skarsgard crouches down to speak into the mic during Spike TV's Scream Awards 2009 held at the Greek Theatre on Saturday (October 17) in Los Angeles.
The 33-year-old Swedish actor accepted the Best Villain award from his Straw Dogs co-star Kate Bosworth, who wore a super sexy Alexander Wang dress and Alexander McQueen shoes. ERIC? HOT!!!
The ceremony will air on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27 @ 10PM ET/PT.
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Top prospect Buxton gaining experience in spring camp
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Byron Buxton is universally regarded as the top prospect in all of baseball.
This offseason, the five-tool outfielder was named the No. 1 prospect by publications such as MLB.com, Baseball America, ESPN, Baseball Prospectus and Fangraphs.com.
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Byron Buxton is universally regarded as the top prospect in all of baseball.
This offseason, the five-tool outfielder was named the No. 1 prospect by publications such as MLB.com, Baseball America, ESPN, Baseball Prospectus and Fangraphs.com.
It came after Buxton, 20, excelled in his first full year in the Minors, hitting a combined .334/.424/.520 with 12 homers, 18 triples, 19 doubles, 55 stolen bases, 77 RBIs and 109 runs in 125 games with Class A Cedar Rapids and Class A Advanced Fort Myers. He followed that up by hitting .212/.288/.404 with three homers, a double and two stolen bases in 12 games against older competition in the Arizona Fall League.
The Baxley, Ga., native, who is in big league camp for this first time this Spring Training, took time to have a conversation with MLB.com about this spring and his future with the organization.
MLB.com: This is your first time in Twins camp. How's it been so far?
Buxton: It's been great. I've just been coming out here every day with the big leaguers, and I'm just trying to get more experience and learn a little bit more about the game.
MLB.com: What's been your favorite part so far of Spring Training?
Buxton: Just being able to come out here every day and meet a great group of guys with great team chemistry. To learn and to experience what it's going to be like someday.
MLB.com: I know a lot of guys like live batting practice, so what's it like being able to face some of your teammates and some of these big leaguers?
Buxton: I haven't been swinging much lately. I've just been tracking, trying to get my eyes used to the movement and other stuff. So I haven't really swung a lot.
MLB.com: What did you do this offseason to get ready for the season?
Buxton: Mostly, I just lifted weights in Atlanta. As far as running-wise, I ran every morning about 6 [a.m.]. So I stayed in shape pretty good this offseason.
MLB.com: You had a big year last year. Is it something where you look back on it much? Or do you look forward more?
Buxton: I look forward more. It helps keep me motivated to do better than I did last year and to help our team win.
MLB.com: You were the No. 1 prospect in just about every publication. How do you stay humble with all these accolades?
Buxton: I don't know. My mom and dad just taught me this. I'm just home grown with it, so I'm going to stick with it.
MLB.com: How much has your family, and I know your dad helps you work out during the offseason, help out with all of this?
Buxton: It helps out a lot. I know that they have my back and that they have my support. So it's always good to know. It's just one big family.
MLB.com: Last year saw you end the season in the Arizona Fall League. What was that like?
Buxton: It was fun. I got a lot of great competition. I went into the offseason knowing what I need to improve on, and so I've tried to get better in those areas.
MLB.com: What are some of those areas you'd like to improve on?
Buxton: Basically, every aspect. I went in [working on] fielding and hitting the ball opposite field gap-to-gap. Baserunning, everything.
MLB.com: What kind of impressions do you want to make on the coaching staff once these games start?
Buxton: Just come out here and play hard and hit the ball hard somewhere and just try to help the team win.
MLB.com: Do you have a timeline in your head when you'd like be in the Majors?
Buxton: I'm sure everybody's timeline here is to break with the [team at the end of] camp, but you just have to work hard wherever we go and try to help our teams win and see what happens.
MLB.com: When you do get to the big leagues, what should Twins fans expect to see from you? What kind of player are you?
Buxton: Hopefully, I'm bringing more excitement and more joy and more wins to the Twins.
MLB.com: You're the biggest prospect in this farm system, but there are a lot of others such as Miguel Sano and other big prospects. Do you think there could be some good years ahead for the Twins?
Buxton: Most definitely. We have a great farm system as you said. We have a great group of guys in our farm system. So hopefully we can all meet together and win a World Series ring.
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger.


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Service and Leadership
The need for service is immediate, and our students have the ability to give. It has been said that a thoughtful individual can change the world — and at Bowdoin, the world's changing. Our students lead, think, and sweat to directly alleviate problems in Brunswick and around the globe nearly every day, of every week, of every month, of every year. That's more than 40,000 hours of service to the local, state, national, and international communities each year.
And while our students provide the people power to get things done, they also provide the principled leadership needed to bring people together to make just, safe, and healthy communities. Some of our students join student-led service organizations during their first year at Bowdoin — and they become so committed to the organization's mission that they choose to later become student leaders. Other students propose new programs to solve new challenges, and we're here to help them make their problem-solving plans a reality. All of the programs we offer were initiated by students and continue to be led by students today.
We recognize that our students need to fulfill the commitments that they make to Brunswick and to the world — that's why we challenge them to develop the knowledge to understand issues, the skills to persuade people, and the character to follow through. These traits are hallmarks of principled leaders, and these traits make McKeen Center programs unique. We want our students to leave with the knowledge and passion that will make them true leaders in their communities today and tomorrow.
The best part? Most students feel that they are simply fulfilling their responsibilities to help solve a problem when they see one.
Student and faculty questions about student community service programs and student leadership can be addressed to Matt Gee, assistant director.