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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Injection

Software; Supply chain

In the theory of constraints, an action or activity that leads to a desired effect or the solution of a problem.

Significant part number

Software; Supply chain

An item number in which each individual character is coded to represent a product family, physical characteristic or other aspect of the part and does not use random characters. Significant part ...

Consolidated pick slip

Software; Supply chain

A pick slip that combines requirements for production components based on a set of multiple orders, date range, production facility, destination or other method. Material issued to a consolidated ...

Outside operation

Software; Supply chain

A routing operation performed by a vendor instead of using internal resources. Outside operation costs are often quoted in terms of lots or units processed, and material used may either be ...

A reported value outside specified control limits or tolerance levels that indicates a failure condition in the system being measured. The sum of all significant variances are often divided by the ...

Consolidation

Software; Supply chain

The combination of shipments from multiple points at an intermediate facility, reducing the number of individual shipments to end locations.

Input/output (I/O) control

Software; Supply chain

An analysis method that measures planned and actual input and output for a linked set of resources to identify the source of disruptions in output. If the plan for a given work centre calls for 100 ...