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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production schedule

Software; Supply chain

A prioritized report of released production orders for a manufacturing facility or specific department.

unfavorable variance

Software; Supply chain

A variance created by using or spending more of a given resource than specified by the standard, often categorized as rate (spending more per hour for labor for a given amount of production), ...

base standard

Software; Supply chain

In a costing system, the initial standard established at the beginning of a fiscal year used for creating budgets and performance measurements for that period. The base standard may be frozen to ...

five why's

Software; Supply chain

A Japanese problem-analysis technique that asks 'why' five times when reviewing a problem or situation, with the belief that by the fifth 'why' the root cause will be discovered.

metering

Software; Supply chain

The process of measuring the usage of volume of a system, such as software functions that monitor and sometimes control the number of concurrent users as specified in the licensing agreement.

replenishment order

Software; Supply chain

Generally, any order used to resupply an item to its desired stock position. Often refers to an interplant or intercompany order that does not generate payables and receivables, as opposed to the ...

acceptance sampling

Software; Supply chain

Predetermined rules for choosing and analyzing samples of production or purchased material based on third-party agreements or previous experience with product, equipment, date, vendor or other ...