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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

Project costing

Software; Supply chain

The identification and reporting of all costs generated by a single project. All production orders, purchase orders and inventoried items are separated and pegged to the project in order to provide a ...

Value chain

Software; Supply chain

The linked set of activities within a supply chain that actively add value to the end product, as opposed to support or reporting activities.

Curve fitting

Software; Supply chain

The creation of a curved line, often based on a nonlinear regression model, that best represents a set of data points.

Projected balance

Software; Supply chain

A future estimated inventory balance calculated by taking the current on-hand inventory, adding scheduled receipts and subtracting requirements or allocations. In planning systems a projected balance ...

Value engineering

Software; Supply chain

An organised methodology that identifies and selects the lowest lifecycle cost options in design, materials and processes that achieves the desired level of performance, reliability and customer ...

Custom

Software; Supply chain

Products and services created for specific orders or events that require nonstandard material, engineering or process resources and may incur extra cost.

Key performance indicator (KPI)

Software; Supply chain

Indicators used to provide measurements of the defined priority and key success factors of a project or system.

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