#operating margin

[just2bruce]

A Story of Supply Chain Excellence

Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, is one of my favorite writers about supply chain issues. She’s always right on target with ideas and metrics that aid companies in the pursuit of supply chain improvements. And she’s the essence of simplicity; it’s never that complicated to do, though the ideas may embody complex interactions and reactions. This article is an example. Lora and her assistant,…

[priveetru]

This is just not true. Lockheed Martin has a 10% operating margin.

Meanwhile Pfizer has operating margins on par with the video game industry of 30% (more profitable but still not nearly the most).

And even if they were the most profitable, the market on the whole suffers from pandemics and wars which is why companies look for stability when deciding where to exist financially.

Even if war and disease were profitable for those industries they would be opposed by every other industry that would suffer for it.

[typosandtea]

Nobody including me posts about their ocs enough so please please please reblog reply or whatever with some oc tidbits!

[shad0w-elemental]

Day 12: Tome, VOULL NE XATA VOK, MARA LOHK?

would you want to know the Truth, even if it hurts to hear it?

[columboscreens]

[classicslesbianopinions]

the thing about being a disabled grad student is that if you want even half a chance you constantly have to not only reveal but interrogate and explain your softest most vulnerable parts. while people around you act like this is just completely normal and actually that is not the softest most vulnerable part of you and actually you are exactly the same as all of them. so you feel like you are in disguise as exactlythesame while also completely exposed. and you just have to live like that. absolutely insane

[weweantica-old]

before and after trying out that pinterest “hack” of painting the chicken wire black. it really does look so much better — and the further away you are the more dramatic the effect. I had spare paint anyway so this was totally worth it.

[sybbi]

"If enough of us vote third party for president, we could actually GET somewhere with our policy goals!"

Baby girl you can't even get a majority of third party/independents in a single state legislature. In the past 30 years there have been seven independent/third party state governors, and of those, only three were genuinely independent. The rest either got elected as a R/D and switched mid-term when they alienated themselves from their state party, got elected as I and then switched to R/D during their terms (with some of them having served the R/D parties before), or served as proxy candidates with heavy backing and support from one of the major two parties. Even VERMONT, a relative stronghold for independent/third party candidates -- the place that brought you Bernie Sanders -- doesn't have a majority of third party candidates. And when I call them a stronghold, I mean they are the only state (I know of) that consistently elects (less than a handful of) Independent candidates to the state legislature; the place is still dominated by Ds and Rs.

"The highest power in the land can't actually be voted on so there's no reason to vote for the democrats"

Hey princess here are some high school civics question for you: How are Supreme Court judges nominated? :) By what process are they appointed? Who starts that process? :) Why is the Supreme Court considered reflective of who has won the presidency? :)

[dead-generations]

Brett, like basically everyone else, gets SpaceX contracts with NASA and the DoD wrong, and if I hadn't just swaddled myself into bed I would describe exactly why in detail. so you get the sleepy short version. I'd like to say first that there's merit to what he says overall, but he's suffering from very common (typically willful) ignorance around SpaceX and aerospace contracting.

In short: NASA has saved billions via SpaceX contracts. Not only that, but SpaceX is the sole reason NASA can get astronauts to the ISS, which would have been problematic in February 2022 to say the least. These billions in cost savings are because there are things that needed doing (launch services) and SpaceX was able to do them well and cheaply. There were no public jobs lost. None.

In general in space capabilities, outside of pure science there is not and has never really been a public option. The so called public options have in fact been massive government subsidies to key industries and corporations, and jobs programs for specific congressional districts. The latter especially is true today.

This has been the case since the Saturn V. These have caused technical limitations, high costs, long development times, and extremely unsafe vehicles that have killed people. Arguing that SpaceX is stealing from the public here is absurd; they are stealing from Boeing and to a lesser extent ULA and Blue Origin.

But there's more to it than that: SpaceX has been part of a huge push by a new generation of NASA officials against entrenched aerospace contactors and their friends and lackeys. This is because Commercial Crew has been the guiding start of a new method by NASA called "fixed price" or "firm fixed price" contracting. Basically NASA contracts someone to provide a service, and they get paid EXACTLY X amount of dollars and only when they reach specific milestones.

Previously, the gold standard in NASA contracting was to engage in Cost Plus contracts. this is exactly what it sounds like: the contractors bid on a price, NASA agrees, but they make assurances to the contractors that they will be paid for all the costs of development and operations, no matter where they go, Plus an agreed upon award amount. The contractor determines those costs. If it sounds like this would allow a contractor to take extra years to develop and artificially inflate costs to get more money for payrole and the company, that's because that is exactly has happened consistently with NASA cost plus contracts.

That era of NASA contracts is dying precisely because it costs way more than firm fixed price, and fixed price contracts create incentives for timely delivery of operational services. It has been an unqualified success and saved billions, and Boeing, Lockheed and Northrup Grumman (yes, the bomb makers are also the Apollo contractors) have been quite unhappy about this change.

SpaceX has saved the DOD considerable millions in launch costs and has expanded their capabilities, particularly those of the NRO and USSF both through the lowered costs and increased cadence of launches, but also through certain starlink capabilities that are still being explored. (Whether or not starlink in particular is providing a necessary service in these cases or is getting some good ol boy money is beyond my present knowledge, and I wouldn't be surprised either way.)

Whether or not you agree with those capabilities it's frankly absurd to act like the NSSL contract is a SpaceX subsidy. They have a smaller share of the launches than ULA (who btw had previously been the sole provider - do liberals like Brett just pretend that old school private contractor milking was patriotic?) and the scheme is being expanded to ensure that as New Glenn, Nova and Neutron become operational, they can go through qualification for NSSL launches as well.

As a side note: I don't think anyone has a real grasp of how much money NASA moves to contractors. SLS + Orion+ mobile launch tower has probably cost more or less 10-15 times all the money SpaceX has received or is going to receive from existing NASA contracts. I'm not even sure that would factor in the legacy constellation contracts.

When commercial crew contracts went out, SpaceX was the outsider winner and Boeing was the legacy contractor. SpaceX got half the money Boeing did for commercial crew and they started work at the same time. SpaceX has since delivered more than half again as many extra launches of crew to the ISS over what they were initially contracted for. You might have heard about Boeing's Starliner in the news recently; it is yet to have a single successful operational flight.

[bluepebbled]

Steps to makin a robot

Deconstruct the figure into pieces using your mind and do it lego origami style

Start with basic shapes in 3D Modeling software

Look at reference photos

Rinse, repeat, RECONSTITUTE THE BEING THAT IS FICTIONAL INTO REALITY AS YOU ARE THE BEHOLDER

Your whole 3D model is off by .25 mm and you need to readjust every part or start over from scratch

You end up starting from scratch

[wanyinchen]

We all know that S3 is gonna be about the Second Coming-slash-Final Judgement blah blah blah blah blah but what i NEED is for Jesus to radiate so much little sibling energy™. I need them and Crowley to be a chaotic-sibling-bestie duo ok??? It's one of the only ways i can heal

[breadandbees]

updated tags on hch4 + pinned a post temporarily until i can organize a new one!

[bleachbleachbleach]

I wish timeslots were infinite! Because I'm enjoying this reread, but I'm also like, "okay but the time I spend on this is time not spent writing my fanfic, or writing tags on other people's posts." And then I was writing a reread post and IN THE MIDDLE OF IT got obsessed with Ganju and now I want to write Ganju fanfic. So I was like, okay, maybe I should pause the reread and write the Ganju fic while I'm here in this part of the canon! Use this as a pause function!

But then I was like, I AM ALREADY WRITING A FANFIC. And while it's not as though I haven't written other fanfic while writing this one (this being true of all of them except for the first two, from before I even joined this fandom), I'm like, okay, but I want to finish this WIP ever, though. I really do. Plus reading is usually easier than writing, so sometimes I can convince myself they are different tasks even if they live in the same task slot ("fandom")? (Though "reading" opens its own door into 'I am enjoying this reread but I also want to read fanfic!') Having too many active processing running in one slot ("fandom") really stresses me out. XP

I think really the takeaway of this story is 'I am bad at task-switching,' but my point still stands: I WISH TIMESLOTS WERE INFINITE. that would cure me

There's just too much Bleach that I wanna be Bleach-ing, at all times!! Bleachbleachbleach

[kenisle]

hate how many fanfics that focus on The Smart Character boil down to “he is correct about everything and everyone who ever made a move against him is Wrong and the entire rest of the world agrees once they see sense so they rise up to punish the Wrong in defense of the special boy while showering him in all the praise and apologies he deserves but never got”

like damn dude maybe i just wanna read abt the smartass being a flawed but lovable idiot just like he and the rest of the cast always are, or perhaps an interesting and nuanced plot that doesn’t blatantly favor the author’s blorbos and reduce the characters they don’t like to convenient caricatures/punching bags

[ikilledamanforthisurl]

yknow the most unbelievable thing about star trek isn't the aliens, isn't dodgy dialogue or cheesy aesthetics or bad CGI, but rather the fact that the Federation, self-proclaimed "paradise", operates a prison system

[ineloquent-tumbling]

Me at work this morning: You know, today seems like it may be manageable. My to do list is starting at only halfway down the page, and there are only like, three things I anticipate adding to it. This might be okay.

Me: *receives one message unrelated to work that requests I use executive function*

Me: *nearly breaks down in tears and has to spend the next hour and a half doing breathing exercises while I work in order to stave off a meltdown*

Me: Nope! Nevermind! This is still not okay!