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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burden rate

Software; Supply chain

A percentage or fixed-dollar amount that allocates department or product overhead expenses to production on a labor hour, machine hour. labor dollar, material dollar or unit basis. (syn: overhead ...

good manufacturing practices (GMP)

Software; Supply chain

Description of standardized, acceptable methods, controls and production facilities used in pharmaceutical, medical device and food manufacturing industries.

nonrecurring

Software; Supply chain

An event or cost not considered to be part of normal, ongoing business operations that is separated or filtered out when forecasting future events or reporting financial information.

scheduled receipt

Software; Supply chain

A firmed (accepted) production, purchase or interplant replenishment order that is treated as an incoming supply by planning systems and nets against requirements based on the quantity and due date.

autoregressive model

Software; Supply chain

A time series analysis model based on previous weighted outputs of a system.

A customer order delivery performance measurement of the percentage of times line item shipments met requested dates and quantities. Whole order shipments may be used instead of individual line items ...

material planner

Software; Supply chain

A person whose focus is the review, release and followup of purchase or production orders and inventory status vs. plan, instead of detailed scheduling of production facilities.