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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 item
Software; Supply chain
A purchased, inventoried item not usually charged to production orders or included in product standard costs.
current state map
Software; Supply chain
The graphical representation of the current status of a system or process that defines its inputs, data flow and outputs and provides the starting point for identifying changes required to reach a ...
kanban
Software; Supply chain
A Just-in-Time technique developed in Japan at the Toyota Corporation in which a work center or department uses a visible card, token or other signal (kanban) to pull material from a feeder work ...
planner bill
Software; Supply chain
A bill of material constructed to arrange items within a given family or group that specifies the percent of each in terms of usage or sales. Often used to explode forecasts from a family level to ...
synchronize
Software; Supply chain
To bring to the same level, rate or status, as in the synchronization of linked production resources to the same timing and volume, or in distributing the same set of data to remote databases.
curve fitting
Software; Supply chain
The creation of a curved line, often based on a nonlinear regression model, that best represents a set of data points.
