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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

fault tolerance

Software; Supply chain

Characteristics of a process that allow it to continue operation or produce acceptable output when faced with a condition outside its normal design parameters.

master file

Software; Supply chain

A database file, often created manually as needed, that contains static records used to identify items, customers, vendors, bills of material, work centers, etc. as opposed to files used to track the ...

quantity rounding

Software; Supply chain

System functions that modify the original result of a transaction by rounding up or down to a specified number of decimal places. Typically used when a unit of measure conversion is performed (cases ...

wait time

Software; Supply chain

syn: idle time

budgeted cost of work scheduled (BCWS)

Software; Supply chain

The earned (standard) cost or budget value of project tasks scheduled to be completed for a given time period. A cumulative view of the planned costs based on the budget schedule.

gateway work center

Software; Supply chain

The work center that performs the initial operation or process in a routing.

nonconformance

Software; Supply chain

The status of a process or product that does not meet specification and requires attention or corrective action.

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