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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Serial number

Software; Supply chain

A set of characters that uniquely identifies a single unit and can be used for traceability and warranty purposes. It does not normally refer to the use of a single identifier for a batch or lot ...

Collaborative

Software; Supply chain

Systems and software that enable group participation in a problem or process. Collaboration systems supply methods for group definition, common technology, interaction and followup, and present a ...

Channel

Software; Supply chain

The distribution or marketing segmentation of products, customers and geographic areas into common groups that are supplied, serviced and measured in similar ways.

Impact analysis

Software; Supply chain

The process of determining the organisational costs and benefits of a proposed alternative.

The process of backflushing one or more operations on a routing based the designation of paypoints, or reporting operations. In a routing with three operations and only the last coded as a paypoint, ...

Second order smoothing

Software; Supply chain

A technique used for time series forecasting that begins with an exponentially-smoothed current forecast and adjusts for trend by using a second smoothed estimate.

Chart of accounts

Software; Supply chain

A structured set of general ledger accounts that fills an organization's requirements in gathering, reporting and analysing financial entries. Detail G/L accounts are normally rolled-up, or ...