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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Control limit

Software; Supply chain

A process specification that measures the point a process is considered no longer acceptable, or is designed to serve as a warning signal before an out-of-bounds condition occurs.

Internal data

Software; Supply chain

Data generated by an organization's operations, such as sales and purchase orders, inventory transactions, etc. instead of being provided from a third party study or database.

Paradigm shift

Software; Supply chain

A complete change in thinking or belief systems that allows the creation of a new condition previously thought impossible or unacceptable. (ex.- the change in thinking created by Justin-Time that ...

Single level

Software; Supply chain

The display of only one level on a bill of material or where-used report, as in the set of immediate components for a parent or the next higher level of parent when tracing a component.

Containerization

Software; Supply chain

The system and process of placing cargo material in a standard-size container, in which the contents are not rehandled as the container is moved between ship, rail, truck or other transportation ...

Interactive

Software; Supply chain

The property of a system that allows two-way communications on a timely if not real-time basis, as opposed to a system in which information flows only one way on a batch or scheduled basis.

Overlapping operations

Software; Supply chain

Operations in which material produced by an initial work centre is begun to be processed by the next work centre before the entire batch or run is finished at the first. Done as a result of order ...