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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Miscellaneous issue

Software; Supply chain

An issue from stock for a non-production use, such as marketing samples, engineering test, etc. that is usually charged to that department and not included in demand history calculations.

Best practises

Software; Supply chain

Standard, published operating methods found to produce the best performance and results in a given industry or organization.

A bill of material with a single, or few levels. Intermediate levels in a bill require activities related to opening orders, moving material in and out of stock, and creating associated routings and ...

Baseline

Software; Supply chain

A set of measurements that establishes the status of a system or other item as of a given date. Used to provide a common denominator and starting point for later measurements and comparisons.

Five nines

Software; Supply chain

The definition of system uptime or availability as 99.999%, or an approximate downtime of 5 minutes per year.

Message philtre

Software; Supply chain

A function in planning systems that suppresses the generation of an exception message based on a date, quantity, dollar or other parameter in order to reduce the overall message volume and focus on ...

Base standard

Software; Supply chain

In a costing system, the initial standard established at the beginning of a fiscal year used for creating budgets and performance measurements for that period. The base standard may be frozen to ...