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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.

Contributors in Supply chain

Supply chain

Sequencing

Software; Supply chain

The arrangement of orders, jobs or activities at a specific resource based on priority and process efficiency logic.

Chi square test

Software; Supply chain

A quality test measuring the assumption that the distribution characteristics of a set of data is reasonable (similar to expected).

Implementation team

Software; Supply chain

Internal or external personnel who are responsible for the installation of a project or system. Team members include the project leader, functional team leaders, functional team members, and ...

Operation time

Software; Supply chain

The elapsed time for an operation that includes setup and run hours, but does not include queue or move time.

Semifinished

Software; Supply chain

Items processed from an original raw state into an intermediate level, or through a portion of the required operations on a routing.

Closed period

Software; Supply chain

An accounting period (general ledger, AP, AR, etc.) for which a manual or system-generated close has been performed. Once closed, final reports are generated and any new transactions for the module ...

Implosion

Software; Supply chain

Tracing a component and its requirements upward through successively higher levels of a bill of material. The opposite of exploding a top-level item down to individual components.

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