Financial
This is the "Master Metric" for an ASU. It is calculated as your total monthly electricity spend divided by the total tons produced. If this number is climbing while production is flat, your plant is "bleeding" profit to the utility company.
What is Specific Power (kWh per Ton)?
This atmospheric condition makes air less dense, requiring the MAC to work harder and consume more power to maintain the same mass flow.
What is High Ambient Temperature (or Humidity)?
Blank occurs when a cardholder knowingly uses the Pcard to obtain goods or services for individual use, or defrauding the company and concealing the inappropriate use.
What is personal misuse?
This formal policy defines The level of authority given to Management which sets forth the levels of approval required before various commitments can be made.
What is the Delegation of Authority?
Fixed trip costs (fuel/labor) are spread over fewer units.
What is the primary reason why 'Short-Dumping' (delivering half-loads) destroys this metric.
From a P&L perspective, this occurs when an operator produces 99.999% purity for a customer whose contract only requires 99.5%. You are spending extra reflux and power to create a "premium" product that the company cannot charge for.
What is Product Giveaway (or Over-Purification)?
Increasing this specific "Discharge" parameter on the MAC by just 5 PSI can increase total plant power consumption by approximately 1% to 1.5%.
What is Discharge Pressure?
Who can make an emergency purchase above their single transaction limit by having the vendor run the card twice?
Who is no one?
This purchase method is typically used to purchase low risk, small value, ad-hoc transactions of goods and services that do not require a purchase order (“PO”).
What is the Airgas PCard?
This "Weight" metric represents the difference between a truck’s Gross Vehicle Weight and its empty weight.
What is Payload?
For a Distribution Manager, this metric tells you if your fleet is "winning." It measures the percentage of a truck’s Gross Vehicle Weight that is actual saleable product. If this is low, you are spending 100% of your labor and fuel to move "dead weight" steel rather than revenue-generating molecules.
What is Payload Utilization?
This is the mathematical "sweet spot" where the MAC's power draw is at its lowest per unit of gas produced.
What is Specific Power (kWh per 100 scf)?
Defined as the intentional, false representation, or concealment of a material fact for the purpose of financial or personal gain.
What is Fraud?
You should send this to a vendor before you go shopping, not after you get the bill.
What is a Purchase Order?
The maximum number of hours a driver can be on duty before requiring a 10-hour break.
What is 14 hours?
Because its production requires no extra air (it's already in the mix) and it sells for the highest price per unit, this molecule is often the difference between a plant "Breaking Even" and "Making the Bonus." Even a 3% drop in its recovery can swing the entire P&L into the red.
What is Argon Recovery?
Utilizing this mechanical component allows the MAC to "throttle" during low demand, but it is significantly less efficient than using a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD).
What are Inlet Guide Vanes (IGVs)?
If you suspect fraudulent activity, you should contact the individual in an effort to determine facts or demand restitution.
No, refer to the Fraud Policy for next steps.
This should be completed in SAP when the good or service has physically been received at the location and/or the service has been completed.
What is a Goods Receipt?
This "Exception" allows a driver to extend their 11-hour driving limit by up to 2 hours in case of unforeseen traffic or weather.
What is the Adverse Driving Condition Exception?
This is the most expensive line item on a Merchant P&L. It occurs when a plant "Trips" unexpectedly and Logistics is forced to buy product from a competitor at market rates to keep our customers from running out.
What is Plant Availability (or Reliability)?
This specific ratio, found in the "Argon Belly" of the LP column, must be perfectly tuned to ensure the Argon Column feed has enough Argon but not too much Nitrogen.
What is the Oxygen-to-Argon Ratio?
An Associate travels on behalf of work, blank is the correct form of reimbursement.
What is mileage reimbursement?
Unlike a progress payment, this type of payment requires a single-line Purchase Order and you should never enter a Goods Receipt (GR) for it until 100% of the work is done.
What is a down payment?
The average cost of losing a 'Merchant' customer to a competitor due to a stock-out.
What is 5x the annual margin (Customer Acquisition Cost)?