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.

Industry: Software

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Downtime

Software; Supply chain

Periods when a resource is not available, either on a scheduled basis or due to unforeseen causes such as breakdown.

Load profile

Software; Supply chain

A numerical or bar graph report of planned and actual capacity requirements for a given resource, that may include pegging to show the individual order sources of the demand.

Product data management (PDM)

Software; Supply chain

An expanded view of product definition functions that include a bill of material and routing database, current and historical engineering data and specifications and engineering change order history.

Traffic management

Software; Supply chain

The process of determining timely and economic delivery methods, arranging internal or external transportation, and tracking shipment status and logistics network issues.

Scheduling small, short-run production jobs using fixed duration or stop-time parameters that use idle or underutilised resources and can be run without delaying the start of priority jobs. Typically ...

Transfer pricing

Software; Supply chain

Prices used in the transfer of materials between units of the same company, often at standard cost or standard plus transportation costs. Used when transfers are not considered sales and purchases ...

Backflush

Software; Supply chain

The calculated reduction of a component inventory balance based on the reported production of a parent item and the quantity of the component used per each parent. A system transaction that may not ...