Scalability: scaling past their own products

By TaiTran, December 26, 2012 5:24 am

Gathering visitors, users, pageviews is not enough anymore. Leading internet firms have scaled past their own products to wider ecosystems.

Product	Scale instrument	How to make money
Google	AdSense which can be embedded into any website.	Already
Facebook	The Like button which can be embedded into any website. eBay also integrated Facebook Want and Own buttons.	Monetizing user data
Amazon	Display products that are not listed on amazon.com itself	First, be the place where people start when they go shopping online

Outline of investment thesis for VCCorp

By TaiTran, June 28, 2012 5:20 pm

By TaiTran, October 28, 2007 1:15 am

Manufacturing management process
that allocates
raw materials and production capacity
optimally
to meet demand.

How APS is different from traditional planning:

Traditional Planning Process

APS Process

The 2 diagrams concludes: APS process is simultaneous, thus is more scalable and optimal and usually gives more accurate results.

The cycles of APS allow throughput times and inventory to be reduced.

APS is often built on finite capacity scheduling.

Make-To-Order (as distinct from make-to-stock) manufacturing
Capital-intensive production processes, where plant capacity is constrained
Products ‘competing’ for plant capacity: where many different products are produced in each facility
Products that require a large number of components or manufacturing tasks
Production necessitates frequent schedule changes which can not be predicted before the event

The end result of APS: the Schedule is passed to Sales/Customer Service. Together with Orders, this Schedule is then input to ERP.

APS and ERP integration