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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slow moving inventory

Software; Supply chain

Items in stock that have had no usage activity for a specified number of days, or whose usage rate is significantly below the historical or expected average.

configurator

Software; Supply chain

A final item description tool used in assemble-to-order (ATO) environments that defines the available product options and accessories, and builds product cost and sales price information from the ...

inhouse

Software; Supply chain

A function or process using internal organization resources.

outlier

Software; Supply chain

An observed value so far removed from the normal distribution that it may be considered an abnormality or one-time event, and is often not included in future calculations based on that set of data.

smoothing

Software; Supply chain

The adjustment or manipulation of a data set to fit a model or curve, as in the use of the alpha factor in exponential smoothing.

Inventory physically at a customer site that remains the financial possession of the vendor. The inventory is considered transferred when agreements specify it is physically recounted by the vendor, ...