Material balance planning encompassed non-labor inputs ( the distribution of consumer goods and allocation of labor was left to market mechanisms ).
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In the economy of the Soviet Union, Gosplan's major function was the formulation of material balances and national plans for the economy.
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The Soviet economy suffered endemic supply problems stemming from the crudity of the material balance technique, where balances were highly aggregated and thus imprecise.
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Input-output planning was never adopted because the material balance system had become entrenched in the Soviet economy, and input-output planning was shunned for ideological reasons.
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It is extensively used both in educational arena and industry to predicate the behavior of a process using material balance equations, equilibrium relationship, reaction kinetics, etc.
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Using this method any changes in the plan to remove mismatches between inputs and outputs would result in hundreds, even thousands, of changes to material balances.
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The term on the right side multiplied by C represents the square of the Thiele Modulus, which we now see rises naturally out of the material balance.
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This was seen as a logical progression given that the material balances system was geared toward rapid industrialization, which the Soviet Union had already achieved in the preceding decades.
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The commissions and ministries evaluated the revised sums, repeated the material balance table procedure, and used the results as the final plan, which the State Council then officially approved.
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In a material balance sheet, the major sources of supply and demand are drawn up in a table that achieves a rough balance between the two through an iterative process.
