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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

authorized work

Software; Supply chain

1) Production orders at a given work center or line that have been released and scheduled; production of other items or quantities is considered unscheduled and may not be included in incentive ...

family

Software; Supply chain

A group of individual items considered to have the same characteristics for purposes of creating aggregate production, capacity, financial or sales plans.

master black belt

Software; Supply chain

In the six sigma quality improvement methodology, a person who teaches and mentors black belt leaders.

quality of service (QoS) level

Software; Supply chain

A network or system agreement that specifies uptime, response time, acceptable error rates and other conditions for a given service and designated user base.

raw material

Software; Supply chain

Purchased items, such as bar stock or food ingredients, transformed by manufacturing operations into an intermediate or finished item. Often used in reference to bulk or commodity items but may ...

work center

Software; Supply chain

A physical or logical production area used as a unit for scheduling and routing operations. It is usually defined as being either labor or machine constrained, and while it may contain multiple ...

capable to promise (CTP)

Software; Supply chain

A system that combines available to promise inventory availability with current capacity capabilities when calculating customer order schedule dates.

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