Ahhhhh! I've been studying all day long! Ask me anything, but be gentle

[da_chimperor]

Taking my first real break since this morning, I was starting to go nuts. :crazy:

[arcane1]

1. gently asking...

what are you studying?

[da_chimperor]

6. I'm studying supply chain management

I'm getting pretty good at it, but I'll be pulling an all-nighter to finish a 10 page case study. It's easy . . . and kinda fun, but time consuming.

[SCDem]

2. What are you studying?

[fluffernutter]

3. what are you studying?

[El Fuego]

4. OK, what are you studying??

[JohnKleeb]

5. I am so excited!

Ahh what is the circumance of a square?

[da_chimperor]

9. Circumference? Isn't that for circles?

It's been a while since geometry . . .

[JohnKleeb]

10. yeah I was being a wiseass

but I am so excited :bounce:.

[da_chimperor]

15. About the being a wiseass? Or circles?

I'm usually more excited about triangles

[JohnKleeb]

19. no about something else :)

[da_chimperor]

25. Does your exuberance have a female source?

;)

[JohnKleeb]

27. sorta yes

:)

[da_chimperor]

30. Awesome *gives you a virtual hi-five*

[JohnKleeb]

31. check your pm

[TlalocW]

23. Its for all geometric shapes

Circumference is just the size of the shape's boundary.

For a circle it Pi * diameter.
For a square it's 4 * s, where s is a side, etc.

TlalocW

[da_chimperor]

35. I got an A- in it, but it's been over 6 years. Thanks.

:)

[tk2kewl]

7. have you learned anything?

:shrug:

[da_chimperor]

11. Sure, I've learned that in-bound logistics can be a pain in the ass

it's pretty damn complicated, actually.

[arcane1]

13. you know, this thread is starting to remind me of work

it's frightening :)

[da_chimperor]

14. You work in logistics?

I've gotta say that i've got tons of respect for the people who do this shit. It's so important and many people don't realize what goes in to getting products and materials from a to b.

[arcane1]

17. more or less

I work for a shipping company, anyway. We don't do the intermodal part, just the ocean-crossing, but the ones who have to deal with logistics sit rather close to me

[da_chimperor]

20. So you get to hear them flipping out when a shipment goes awry?

[arcane1]

22. ALL THE TIME!!!!!!

:crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy:

[da_chimperor]

24. I can understand them flipping out. One too many f'd up shipments . . .

can mean the customer tells you to go to hell, and then finds another transportation company . . . unless yours is a rather large and beefy one which no well positioned direct competitors. Some earplugs may be in order for you.

[arcane1]

26. we are rather big & beefy, a global company

but they treat every bill like it's the only one they have, and I can just hear the blood-pressure rising all the time

fortunately, I'm in IT and don't have to deal with any of that :D

[da_chimperor]

29. But then if there's an IT problem that messes up the ordering system . . .

:scared:

[arcane1]

32. SHHHH!!!!!

don't say that out loud! :P

[da_chimperor]

33. Oh . . . .crap . . . . sorry about that one.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for ya. :smoke:

[arcane1]

34. indeed

though I shouldn't say it, work has been rather slow lately, we could really use a new bug in the system :P

[Droopy]

8. How are you ever going to get your degree

and earn the big bucks if you keep taking all these breaks? ;)

[da_chimperor]

12. I'm allowed at least 1 break every 6 hours

that and i'm going to ace this report. The professor values quality over quantity, and it's only 10 pages. :D

[Droopy]

21. I dropped out of college because

I couldn't write any paper longer than 8 pages, and that was puching it with a lot of filler thrown in there. I could write a quality 5 page paper and that was about it.

So when you say it's only 10 pages it makes me wonder what you consider a hard paper!

[da_chimperor]

28. Hard . . . . ehhh, I've had to do a 20-pager that was a pain in the ass

but still manageable. Hard starts at about the 40-page mark for me. I had to do one of those, and I did nothing fun at all for about 3 weeks. I can do a 10 page paper on just about any subject in between 24 (if it's an English paper) - 72 (philosophy, or anything requiring lots of reading) hours, either because the paper requires you to be specific and in-depth on a limited topic, or because it requires you to be very broad and general over a wider subject or series of subjects. I'm great at pulling all nighters, so that helps as well. :D

[tk2kewl]

16. If you put more supply in will I benefit?

:shrug:

[da_chimperor]

18. Well, interpreting more supply as a higher inventory level . . .

it all depends. It may benefit the end consumer by having lower inventory levels as a result of less lead time on inbound materials/products (meaning a more flexible system overall) and shorter order cycles resulting in quicker delivery, but that's only if there is an overall cost savings at an acceptable level of business activity. The end cost savings resulting in a lower price for the end user. Or it may not. Or something like that. I've still got plenty of time to go over my stuff again. :shrug: