Identify Other Potential Sources of Information About the Weather?

Identify other potential sources of information about the weather?

A weather radar, or weather surveillance radar (WSR), is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, estimate its type (rain, snow, hail, etc.), and forecast its future position and intensity.

Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to intensity of the precipitation. Both types of data can be analyzed to determine the structure of storms and their potential to cause severe weather.

A weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be either polar orbiting, seeing the same swath of the Earth every 12 hours, or geostationary, hovering over the same spot on Earth by orbiting over the equator while moving at the speed of the Earth's rotation.[1] These meteorological satellites, however, see more than clouds and cloud systems. City lights, fires, effects of pollution, auroras, sand and dust storms, snow cover, ice mapping, boundaries of ocean currents, energy flows, etc., are other types of environmental information collected using weather satellites.

1. Planning materials for the production.

2. Planning for likely orders ( forecast)

3. Quick delivery to long delivery items

4. Inventory planning - slow moving, non moving, ABC analysis

5. material allocation for projects

etc

Purchasing covers

1. Optimum quantity

2. Just in time

3. Inventory stocking at supplier or warehouse maintained in your premises by the supplier

4. Best pricing

etc

Internet reduces the communication costs and lets the supplier know your real time requirements.

For example, I have a requirement of transformers. I used 10000 transformers last year and so far I have a requirement of 2000. Marketing department said there are three more projects in pipe line and the requirement may go up to 5000.

I will have a supplier ( or more) ask them for quotations and finalize the prices based on quantities. Then the ERP system can be extended to the suppliers, who agree to supplied based on Rate contract. The supplier can see that there is a confirmed requirement on 2000 with the dates when the material shall be made available. And they also know that ther 'could be' another order worth 3000. Though, there is no committment, based on the