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Supply chain

Of or referring to a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information, and resources that develops a product from supplier to customer in an efficient manner.

Contributors in Supply chain

Supply chain

cycle redundancy check

Software; Supply chain

A software feature that verifies that a given assembly item number is not produced from the same item number, which creates an error condition in many systems.

kurtosis

Software; Supply chain

A quality measure of the peakedness of a data distribution.

poka yoke

Software; Supply chain

The Japanese term for failsafe.

theoretical capacity

Software; Supply chain

The maximum output a given resource could generate if operated full-time and the optimal production rate was met.

cycle stock

Software; Supply chain

The portion of inventory incrementally consumed by demand and periodically replenished when a resupply is triggered by reaching a predetermined level. The portion of total inventory over and above ...

labor content

Software; Supply chain

syn: labor cost.

positive float

Software; Supply chain

The period of time the start of a project task can be delayed without delaying the entire project. Project tasks that have positive float are not included on the critical path.

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