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.

Industry: Software

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vendor scheduling

Software; Supply chain

The sharing of internal schedules, often as generated by MRP, for specified items with a vendor, instead of placing individual purchase orders as required. A vendor schedule is often divided into ...

bottleneck

Software; Supply chain

A resource that constrains the flow of production, inventory movement or data in a system. In a free-flowing system, the first place to restrict throughput when demand is raised.

front office

Software; Supply chain

The functions of an organization that interact on a daily or normal basis with outside entities such as customers and prospects.

net cash flow

Software; Supply chain

Cash inflow (sales revenue) less cash outflow (payments).

run time

Software; Supply chain

Time spent processing or transforming material against an order or schedule, and does not include setup, queue or move time.

application service provider (ASP)

A third party that provides ERP or other business applications on a hosted basis to customers and users. Instead of buying a license from the software vendor, the customer contracts for Internet or ...

exponential smoothing

Software; Supply chain

A technique used in forecasting models that assigns different weights to past demand periods, instead of considering each one equally. A simple moving average technique takes the total demand for the ...