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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heijunka

Software; Supply chain

An element of the Toyota Production System that averages volume and sequence of scheduled items to provide level production and help enable JIT.

obsolescence

Software; Supply chain

The degradation in the value and usefulness of a resource based on its age, replacement by newer technology, lack of demand or other factor that may require a partial or total writeoff of its ...

self-billing

Software; Supply chain

An application that allows customers to create their own invoices, based on usage, date or other parameters, and provides automatic payment remittance through Internet, EDI or other methods.

r chart

Software; Supply chain

A range control chart.

work center where-used

Software; Supply chain

A list of all products routed through a given work center. Useful in evaluating the impact of rate, cost or process changes.

capacity requirements planning (CRP)

Software; Supply chain

A process using demand from open production orders and MRP planned orders, and work center/production line rate and capacity data to determine over or under capacity conditions. A short- term, ...