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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.
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Supply chain
Quality function deployment (QFD)
Software; Supply chain
An overall methodology that begins in the design process and attempts to map the customer-defined expectation and definition of quality into the processes and parameters that will fulfil them. It ...
Voucher number
Software; Supply chain
An internal number assigned in accounts payable to track and reference one or more invoices.
Demand pattern
Software; Supply chain
The characterization of product demand in terms of regularity, volume and timing that determine company policies in creating forecast, inventory reorder and lot size parameters.
Layer
Software; Supply chain
To separate discrete levels from the total of a given item, based on time, specific batch identifier, or some other factor. On-hand inventory is sometimes layered to isolate the specific timing of ...
Third party logistics provider (3PL)
Software; Supply chain
An outsourced provider that manages all or a significant part of an organization's logistics requirements and performs transportation, locating and sometimes product consolidation activities.
Manual reschedule
Software; Supply chain
To change the expected date of an open production, purchase or interplant order by a planner or other person, based on a suggestion from MRP or other information. It requires a review process that ...
Quality assurance
Software; Supply chain
The set of activities that specifies acceptable material and process parameters and measures actual performance in meeting defined quality standards. When used in reference to a department-quality ...