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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Supply chain

A basic financial statement that measures the positions of a company's assets, liabilities and shareholders' equity as of a given date and usually compares those positions to the status on the same ...

first order smoothing

Software; Supply chain

Forecasting exponential smoothing systems that do not contain parameters or adjustments for the effects of trends and seasonality.

mean

Software; Supply chain

The average of a set of numeric values, as calculated by summing the individual values and dividing by the number of values in the set.

remote synchronization

Software; Supply chain

The centralized update of distributed devices and systems with separate databases that brings them up to the same status.

40/30/30 rule

Software; Supply chain

A rule that specifies the sources of quality problems as due to 40% from product design, 30% from manufacturing and 30% from vendors.

dynamic lot size

Software; Supply chain

A lot size quantity that changes for successive orders of the same item based on cost, number of days supplied or optimization parameters.

logistics network

Software; Supply chain

The linked set of resources used in moving and storing material at the required location and time, which can be classified as external (vendors, customers, distribution centers and transportation ...