Supply chain

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.

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copacker

Software; Supply chain

A third party contract manufacturer that produces and packs items for another company. A term most often used in the food processing industry.

internal setup

Software; Supply chain

Setup tasks for a machine or other production resource that requires an idle (nonproducing) status, until complete. Systems that seek to reduce lead time and enable small lot size production ...

parallel conversion

Software; Supply chain

A project implementation technique in which an existing system is run in parallel with the new system, with the comparison of operations and results to verify that the new system will properly ...

The methods used to reduce or eliminate custom, one-time and seldom-used components and processes that introduce variability and potential added costs and quality problems. Standardization techniques ...