Basic

Inventory Management and Inventory Control must be designed to meet the dictates of the marketplace and support the company's strategic plan. The many changes in market demand, new opportunities due to worldwide marketing, global sourcing of materials, and new manufacturing technology, means many companies need to change their Inventory Management approach and change the process for Inventory Control.

Despite the many changes that companies go through, the basic principles of Inventory Management and Inventory Control remain the same. Some of the new approaches and techniques are wrapped in new terminology, but the underlying principles for accomplishing good Inventory Management and Inventory activities have not changed.

The Inventory Management system and the Inventory Control Process provides information to efficiently manage the flow of materials, effectively utilize people and equipment, coordinate internal activities, and communicate with customers. Inventory Management and the activities of Inventory Control do not make decisions or manage operations; they provide the information to Managers who make more accurate and timely decisions to manage their operations.

The basic building blocks for the Inventory Management system and Inventory Control activities are:

Sales Forecasting or Demand Management

Sales and Operations Planning

Production Planning

Material Requirements Planning

Inventory Reduction

The emphases on each area will vary depending on the company and how it operates, and what requirements are placed on it due to market demands. Each of the areas above will need to be addressed in some form or another to have a successful program of Inventory Management and Inventory Control.

Interest Inventory

Interest Inventory

1. What is your favorite activity or subject? Why? Your least favorite? Why?

I think that my favorite subject is math because I like solving math problems at high speed. In the other hand my least favorite subject is chemical because I hate working with the periodic table.

2. What are your best subjects? What makes them easiest for you?

I would say that my best subject is math. I love math problems and everything that takes over numbers.

3. What subjects are difficult for you? What makes them the hardest?

Chemical is the most difficult subject that I have. It material is very difficult to understand and causes an explosion in my mind.

4. What subjects make you think and work the hardest? Why is it the most challenging?

I know that it going sound a little strange but the subject that make me think and work the hardest is English. I’ve always had trouble with this class. I think it’s because It make me to use the maximum of my mind to create unique and impeccable writings.

5. Rate the following topics according to your interests (1=very interested, 2=somewhat interested, 3=not interested):

Dance-1, Music-1, Drama-2, Sports-1, Writing-1, Math-1, Computers-1, Science- 2, Social Studies-1, Business- 2, World Languages-1, Politics/Law-3, Other(Reading)-1

6. What are your favorite games or sports?

My favorite sport since childhood is basketball. As games I love video games.

7. If you could learn about annything you wanted to, what would you choose to learn about? Be specific.

If I have the oportunity to learn about someone or something, I would choose the pacifist Mahad Magandi. A person who preach during his life the responding to violence with peace.

8. What are three things you like to when you have free time (besides seeing your friends)?

Three things that I like to do when I have free time are listen to music, read a lot and watch TV.

9. What clubs, groups, organizations do you belong to?

At the moment I dont belong to any organisation but if I have the opportunity to belong to one I would not let it pass.

10. What things have you collected in the past? What, if anything, are you currently collecting?

In the past I used to collect coins of every year, but at the moment I collect coins of each country.

11. Have you ever taught yourself to do something without the help of another person? If so, what?

If I ever thought about doing something without the help from anyone, it has been on helping poor people to leave their status.

12. If you were going to start a book club, what kinds of books would your club read?

If I were going to start a book club, my members would read fiction and horror books.

13. If people were to come to you for information about something you know a lot about, what would the topic be?

If someone come to me to find information about something, that something would be about computers and technology.

14.If you could plan a field trip for learning, where would you go? Why would you choose that place?

If I could plan a field trip for learnig, I would choose the country of Africa to analize how its population survive in that enviroment without food and without a safe place to live.

15. When you’re using the computer, what are you usually doing? Why?

When I using the computer, I’m usually doing research, visiting web sites and doing homework. I do all these things to learn and also to be updated on all issues.

16. If you could interview an expert on any subject, what subject would you like to talk to someone about? Who would you like to interview about that subject if you could?

If I could interview an expert on any subject, that subject would be the history of Puerto Rico. And I would choose to interview my mom, a History of P.R teacher.

17. If you could interview one significant person from the past and one from the present, who would you interview? Why would you choose these 2 people?

If I could interview one significant person from the present, I would choose a brother that I have never known or meet in person and from the past I will choose my grandfather who died a year before my birth.

18. What careers are you currently interested in?

I’m currently interested in a electrical engineering carreer.

19. In my classes I prefer to work:

Whit one other person.

20. In school I learn best:

Alone.

21. What helps you learn?

Reading, taking notes, silence and visual materials(PowerPoints) help me a lot to learn.

22. What makes learning more difficult for you?

A lot of work, loud sounds and a bad professor makes my learning more difficult.

23. Think of a great teacher you had. What made this teacher so terrific?

Armando Rivera my teacher of Latin American History, was a great teacher in my life. His type of teaching was very special. He had a great sense of humor and taugh us to be a optimistic person in our lifes.

24. What past school assignment or project are you proudest of? Why?

I’m very proud of the project that I made in high school about the disease of asthma. This project make me proud because a lot of students learned about the causes and effects of this disease.

25. What project done outside of school are you proudest about? Why?

I’m very proud of a project that I made with my friends to help eldery people in an asylum. And I like a lot making this project because we help them to complete their routine actions.

26. What else would you like me to know about you as a learner?

Google chrome browser

At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we've now made the comic publicly available -- you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends -- all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn't the browser that matters. It's only a tool to run the important stuff -- the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today's complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated "sandbox", we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers.

This is just the beginning -- Google Chrome is far from done. We're releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We're hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust.

We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we're committed to continuing on their path. We've used components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others -- and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.

The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.

So check in again tomorrow to try Google Chrome for yourself. We'll post an update here as soon as it's ready.